bìn

hair on temples

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
髟 meaning component

  Meaning component

biāo

  

long hair

賓 sound component

  Sound component

bīn

  

guest

Evolution

鬢 Bronze script Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
鬢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鬢 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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bìn

hair on temples; temples; hair on the temples

Most common words with 鬢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

temples

鬓角

sideburns

鬓发

hair on the temples

耳鬓厮磨

lit. heads rubbing together (idiom)

云鬓

a woman's beautiful, thick hair

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3749th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

Unicode

U+9B22

Shuowen

“鬢,頰髮也。从髟,賓聲。”


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