hair

Origin & mnemonic

The hair radical derives from a pictograph depicting strands of hair on the human head, originating from oracle-bone and seal-script forms. The earliest shape represented individual hairs or hair strands emerging from the scalp.

Mnemonic: Picture a bundle of hair sprouting from the head with wispy strokes hanging down like loose strands of hair.

• 髟biāo🔊

  hair

  10 strokes

• 髠kūn🔊

  variant of 髡[kun1]

  12 strokes

• 髡kūn🔊

  scalping

  13 strokes

• 髢dí🔊

  old variant of 鬄[di2]

  13 strokes

• 髣fǎng🔊

  seemingly

  14 strokes

• 髦máo🔊

  bang (hair)

  14 strokes

• 髧dàn🔊

  long hair

  14 strokes

• 髨kūn🔊

  old variant of 髡[kun1]

  14 strokes

• 髩bìn🔊

  old variant of 鬢|鬓[bin4]

  14 strokes

• 发fā🔊

  to send out

  HSK 2

  15 strokes

• 髫tiáo🔊

  (literary) hair hanging down in front (children's hairstyle)

  15 strokes

• 髯rán🔊

  beard

  15 strokes

• 髲pì🔊

  a wig

  15 strokes

• 髳máo🔊

  bang (hair)

  15 strokes

• 髭zī🔊

  mustache

  16 strokes

• 髹xiū🔊

  red lacquer

  16 strokes

• 髺kuò🔊

  hair rolled up in a bun

  16 strokes

• 髻jì🔊

  hair rolled up in a bun, topknot

  16 strokes

• 髽zhuā🔊

  dress the hair

  17 strokes

• 髾shāo🔊

  tail of a comet

  17 strokes

• 鬁lì🔊

  bald

  17 strokes

• 松sōng🔊

  loose

  HSK 4

  18 strokes

• 鬃zōng🔊

  disheveled hair

  18 strokes

• 鬄dí🔊

  wig

  18 strokes

• 鬅péng🔊

  disheveled

  18 strokes

• 鬈quán🔊

  to curl

  18 strokes

• 胡hú🔊

  beard

  19 strokes

• 鬋jiān🔊

  to hang down (hair)

  19 strokes

• 鬎là🔊

  bald

  19 strokes

• 鬏jiū🔊

  bun (of hair)

  19 strokes

• 鬐qí🔊

  dorsal fins

  20 strokes

• 鬑lián🔊

  hanging temple hair

  20 strokes

• 鬒zhěn🔊

  bushy black hair

  20 strokes

• 鬓bìn🔊

  temples

  20 strokes

• 鬘mán🔊

  (of woman's hair) beautiful

  21 strokes

• 须xū🔊

  beard

  HSK 7

  22 strokes

• 鬙sēng🔊

  short hair

  22 strokes

• 鬟huán🔊

  a knot of hair on top of head

  23 strokes

• 鬣liè🔊

  bristles

  25 strokes