髭
髭 — ja
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 코밑수염 자
- Romanization
- ja
- English
- mustache
- Mandarin
- zī
- Japanese on'yomi
- シ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ひげ くちひげ
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 髟 (190, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+9AED
Parts that make up 髭
How 髭 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 髭 as a phonetic compound involving 須, 此.
Japanese words with 髭
- 髭ひげ moustache; mustache; beard
- 頬髭ほおひげ whiskers; sideburns; sideboards
- 顎髭あごひげ beard (esp. on the chin); goatee
- 髭面ひげづら bearded face; unshaven face; hairy face
- 虎髭とらひげ bristly beard; bristly mustache; tiger whiskers
- 鎌髭かまひげ sickle-shaped moustache (often worn by servants in the Edo period)
- 白髭しろひげ grey moustache; gray mustache; white beard
- 大髭おおひげ long and abundant moustache
- 髭鷲ひげわし bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus); lammergeier
- 天神髭てんじんひげ drooping moustache; goatee
- 八字髭はちじひげ finely trimmed moustache
- 髭剃りひげそり shaving; shaver
Other hanja read “자”
Other hanja with radical 髟
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences