Two-tuft hair character

It names an old child’s hairstyle, then childhood. Hair was divided and gathered into two loops above the ears. The earliest cited graphic form is on 丱父己簋, a late Shang bronze ritual vessel; that inscription alone does not establish the hairstyle sense. The clearest early classical Chinese witness is the Book of Songs, an early Chinese poetry collection: 总角丱兮 is read as two gathered locks and youth.

In Japanese, あげまき names the hairstyle and, by extension, a child; 総角 and 揚巻 are related spellings. In Chinese, 丱童 means a young child. Dictionaries also record an ore or mineral sense for 丱 and propose a connection with an ancient form of 卵.

What does it mean when someone sends 丱?

It usually points to a classical or dictionary reference. As of 2026-09-10, no shared modern reaction reading is established.

Alone, the character cannot tell you whether the sender means the hairstyle, childhood, or an older dictionary sense; ask which language or text they have in mind.