What 緌 means
It means the dangling end of a cap tie, or a related tassel.
《诗经·齐风·南山》 uses 冠緌 for paired hanging ends of a cap tie. The tie held the cap beneath the chin; 緌 was the loose remainder, so the word names something functional and decorative.
緌 vs 纓 is a scope distinction: 纓 is the tie or cord, while 緌 is its hanging end. Classical usage extends the same hanging-pendant idea to 垂緌 and a banner ornament in 緌旌; older lexicography also records 蕤 and 綏 as alternate graphs for this word. The sources checked support this historical extension, not a separate modern or cross-cultural meaning.
Classical and specialized; use it for old dress, quoted texts, or deliberate historical diction.
It names the hanging end, not the whole cap tie.
Who writes 緌
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Questions people ask
1Why does 緌 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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- rui · ruí · 冠緌 · 垂緌 · 緌旌 · 缨子 · 帽带 · 旗饰
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緌\7DCCCodes and encoding1 code points
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