The willow branches droop and sway gently in the breeze.
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冄 is an old variant of 冉 and is not used independently in modern Chinese, the standard form 冉 replaced it everywhere, as in the reduplicated 冉冉 (slowly, gradually) and the surname 冉.
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Archaic glyph only, appears in old texts and etymology notes; write 冉 in modern Chinese.
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冄rǎn
drooping fur; gradually
Originally a drawing of soft, hanging fur or whiskers. The modern silhouette of 冄 no longer splits into independent parts, it is the same single graph as 冉, just an older brush shape.
No stroke data for 冄; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.
