disheveled hair

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
髟 meaning component

  Meaning component

biāo

  

long hair

弗 sound component

  Sound component

  

not

Evolution

髴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
髴 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
髴 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
髴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

disheveled hair; similar to

() 

(female) head ornament; variant of 彿|[fú]

Most common words with 髴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

seemingly

仿佛

to seem

哈佛

Harvard

佛罗里达

Florida

佛教

Buddhism