hair rolled up in a bun

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
髟 meaning component

  Meaning component

biāo

  

long hair

吉 sound component

  Sound component

  

lucky

Evolution

髻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
髻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

hair rolled up in a bun, topknot

Most common words with 髻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

发髻

hair worn in a bun or coil

hair rolled up in a bun, topknot

丫髻

topknot

螺髻

spiral coil (in hairdressing)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤi[t]-s

kejH

hair-knot, chignon


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4140th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+9AFB

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“髻,緫髮也。从髟,吉聲。古通用結。”


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