huán

dress hair in coiled knot

A round  topknot  also provides the pronunciation

Components
髟 meaning component

  Meaning component

biāo

  

long hair

睘 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

qióng

  

round

Evolution

鬟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鬟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

huán

dress hair in coiled knot; maid; a knot of hair on top of head

Most common words with 鬟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

丫鬟

maid

a knot of hair on top of head

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5902nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Unicode

U+9B1F

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“鬟,緫髮也。从髟,睘聲。”


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