• hair;

The character 彡 (삼) is known as ‘터럭 삼’, which means: hair, decorative patterns or designs made from hair or resembling hair strands or fur.

Usage in Korean

When used as a semantic radical, it generally relates to shapes, patterns, or decorations.

It can also indicate meanings related to long hair or hair-like features, as seen in characters like 須 (mustache/ beard).

Similar shape characters

Its shape resembles the character (three) tilted, and since the pronunciation is the same, it is sometimes called “tilted three strokes” (삐친석삼).

However, the character belongs to the (one) radical group.

털럭
teolleog
sam
Kangxi radical:59
Strokes:3
Unicode:U+5F61
Cangjie input:
  • 竹竹竹 (HHH)
Composition:
  • ⿳ 丿 丿丿
Writing order
彡 Writing order

Neighboring radicals in the dictionary

References

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