What 髥 means
It names beard hair, with one narrower gloss for cheek whiskers.
Chinese dictionaries record 髥 as a popular variant of 髯, a beard character. Its narrower gloss, cheek whiskers, belongs to the same facial-hair meaning.
Japanese reference works give the reading おおひげ, meaning “beard.” Korean sources connect the reading 염 with the 1527 Hunmong Jahoe, a Korean vocabulary book. Recorded compounds include 鬚髥 (“beard or mustache”) and 長髥 (“long beard”).
Is 髥 a variant of 髯?
Yes: dictionaries treat 髥 as a variant form of 髯.
The two forms share a beard-related sense, but they are not interchangeable when quoting a source; keep the glyph that source uses.
A dictionary or literary form for facial hair; use the form your source prints.
If exact wording matters, keep 髥 distinct from 髯.
Who writes 髥
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1Why does 髥 show as a box?
It can if the active font lacks this glyph; another font may display it. The missing glyph does not change which character the text contains.
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髥\9AE5Codes and encoding1 code points
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