鬒
zhěn

black hair

Phonosemantic compound. 髟 represents the meaning and 真 represents the sound.

Components

髟
髟 Meaning component
biāo, piào, shān long hair
真
真 Sound component
zhēn real

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsyinXti[n]ʔ black hair

說文解字

《說文》：“，禂髮也。从彡，从人。《詩》曰：‘髮如雲。’鬒，或从髟，眞聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)