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鬟

huán
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 coiled knot of hair worn by women
  2. 2 ring-shaped hair bun

Examples

HSK 5
古诗常写美人的云鬟。
Gǔ shī cháng xiě měirén de yún huán.
Classical poems often describe a beauty's cloud-like hair bun.
HSK 7-9
她的头发梳成高高的云鬟。
Tā de tóufa shū chéng gāogāo de yún huán.
Her hair was coiled into a high ring-shaped bun.

Tips

culture
This is a poetic, literary word. It almost always appears as 云鬟 ('cloud bun') in classical verse describing a woman's elaborate, cloud-soft coiled hairstyle, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
髟 biāo
long hair
The long-flowing-hair radical, sitting on top. It marks this as a hair word, the same family as 鬓 (sideburns) and 鬃 (mane).
phonetic
睘 huán
to look around; phonetic
Sits underneath and supplies the sound huán. The same phonetic gives 环 (ring) and 还 (return), echoing the ring shape of the hair knot.

Stroke Order

鬟 huán