Frown variant

𮜫 is a variant of 顰, a Chinese character for frowning; simplified Chinese uses 颦. A Tang Buddhist text uses it in 𮜫眉 (“knitted brows”); Ming and Qing writings use it too. The Chinese classic Zhuangzi tells how 東施效顰 means copying a beauty’s frown without understanding why it works. Shuowen Jiezi’s Han-era gloss describes 顰 as frowning while wading; that explains the word, not this glyph’s origin.