rǎn

drooping

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approved by Marcus Ngai · Jun 24, 2026, 02:37 AM · Reviewed by Marcus Ngai on Jun 24, 2026, 02:37 AM

Tweaked stroke order to make the horizontal lines less thick and more natural.

Changed fields: strokeDataSimp, fragmentsSimp, historicalImages

is a variant form of , which depicts two strands of hair drooping.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

說文解字

《說文》:“冄,毛冄冄也。象形。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.731
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica