Chinese Character Wiki

鬣

liè

horse's mane

Whiskers 巤 of hair 髟; 巤 also provides the pronunciation

Components
髟 meaning component

髟  Meaning component

biāo

  

long hair

巤 sound,meaning component

巤  Sound Meaning component

liè

  

a mane

Evolution

鬣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鬣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鬣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鬣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鬣  

liè

horse's mane; fin; human whiskers; bristles; mane

Most common words with 鬣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鬣

mane

鬣狗

hyena

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5372nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

25

Unicode

U+9B23

Shuowen

“鬣，髮鬣鬣也。从髟，巤聲。，鬣或从毛；，或從豕。”


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