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long hair
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髧 is a phono-semantic compound used in classical literature to describe long hair hanging down. Its upper component, the semantic radical 髟, categorizes it under hair or hairstyle. The lower component 冘 provides the phonetic element for the pronunciation 'dàn'. The character's structure visually suggests the downward flow of hair. As this specific concept is more commonly expressed by multi-character words in modern Chinese, 髧 appears mainly in historical texts and poetry.