髥

髥 U+9AE5, 髥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AE5 ← 髤 [U+9AE4] CJK Unified Ideographs 髦 → [U+9AE6]

Translingual

Han character

髥 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+4, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹月一一 (SHBMM), composition ⿱髟冄)

1. beard
2. mustache

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1452, character 43
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45375
• Dae Jaweon: page 1983, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4519, character 11
• Unihan data for U+9AE5

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 髥 – see 髯 (“whiskers; beard; person with a lot of beard”). (This character is a variant form of 髯).

Japanese

Kanji

髥

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. beard
2. mustache

Readings

• On (unclassified): ぜん (zen)、ねん (nen)
• Kun: おおひげ (ōhige)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 髯 (MC nyem|nyemH). Recorded as Middle Korean ᅀᅧᆷ (zyem) (Yale: zyem) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [jʌ̹m]
• Phonetic hangul: [염]

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

髥

髥 (eumhun 구레나룻 염 (gurenarut yeom))

1. hanja form^? of 염 (“beard; mustache”)

Compounds

• 수염 (鬚髥, suyeom)
• 장염 (長髥, jang'yeom)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.