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鬟 (huán) denotes the traditional annular hair knot, a topknot, worn on the crown by unmarried women or young maidservants in historical China. It combines the hair radical 髟 (biāo) with 睘 (huán), which means "round" and also supplies the pronunciation. Because this hairstyle marked young female domestics, the character metonymically came to refer to the servant girls themselves, a usage frequent in classical literature and dramas about aristocratic households.
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