What 䯼 means
A wig-like hairpiece for a woman's bun. In 䯼髻, 䯼 names the cover and 髻 the bun; together they describe a covered or built-up hairstyle. A chignon is hair gathered into a bun, usually at the back of the head.
䯼髻 appears in Wang Shifu's Yuan dynasty play The West Chamber; a later Qing dynasty literary example mentions a silver-wire version.
How did 䯼髻 change?
The hairstyle name came to mean a separate cover.
The earlier 包髻 tradition wrapped hair into a bun. Song-Yuan fashions for caps and wrapped buns helped 䯼髻 become a fabric-covered piece worn over a woman's existing bun. In Ming dynasty dress, it could support a 头面, a coordinated set of hairpins and ornaments, and display a married woman's wealth and status.
A historical clothing term with a literary register.
Who writes 䯼
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1Why does 䯼 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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- Also called
- 䯼髻 · 发鼓 · 假壳
- Search it as
- wig-like chignon · Chinese hairpiece · hair cover
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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