Mane variant

It is a written variant of 鬣, the word for a mane. The cited Mandarin reading is liè. 鬣 means the long hair along an animal’s neck or back; it can also name bristles that stand upright.

Where does 𩮻 appear in old Chinese texts?

The clearest example describes a horse’s red mane. A passage in a work attributed to Cai Yong of the Eastern Han (25–220 CE) uses 𩮻 for the mane. The cited copy was printed in Jiaqing 4 (1799); it documents transmission of the wording, not when the variant began.

The early Chinese character dictionary Shuowen Jiezi analyzes 鬣 as 髟 (the hair component) plus 巤 (a sound element). A Chinese-language account published in 2013 follows the word beyond animal manes to upright bristles and ridge-like tufts on plants and fish; 𩮻 is another written form of 鬣.