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zhěn

thick hair

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approved by Marcus Ngai · Mar 24, 2026, 06:21 AM · Reviewed by Marcus Ngai on Mar 24, 2026, 06:21 AM

made design less skinny.

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Variant of 鬒. Depicts a person (人) with thick hair (彡).

Components

人
人 Iconic component
rén, ren person
彡
彡 Iconic component
shān, xiǎn hair

hair


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-SagarttsyinXt[ə][n]ʔ thick 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)