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hanging temple hair
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鬑 is a phono-semantic compound used almost exclusively in classical descriptions of physical appearance. The hair radical 髟 (biāo) places it in the semantic field of hair, beards, or hairstyles, while 兼 (jiān) provides the pronunciation. It typically appears in the reduplicated binome 鬑鬑 (liánlián), which depicts long, sparse, thin hair or a beard. Its meaning is so narrowly tied to this visual quality that it is largely restricted to classical poetry and historical texts, where it serves as an evocative descriptor.
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