Phonosemantic compound. 而 represents the sound and 彡 (hair) represents the meaning.
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernNot found in HSK word list
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+800F |
Shuowen | “耏,罪不至髡也。从而,从彡。耐,或从寸。諸法度字从寸。” |