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dress the hair
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The character 髽 is composed of 髟 (a radical meaning hair, hairstyles, or grooming) and the phonetic 坐. Its original sense designated a women's mourning hairstyle, where hair was tied up with hemp cloth instead of ordinary hairpins or ornaments. This practice was a prescribed element of traditional funeral rites, so the character did not merely describe grooming but also conveyed social and ceremonial significance. As the mourning customs that required this style fell out of use, 髽 transitioned from a living word into a historical term, now encountered only in classical texts as an artifact of ancient ritual protocol.
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