Meanings
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Common Words
In careful usage 髭 for moustache, 鬚 for beard, 髯 for (cheek) whiskers
moustache; mustache; beard; whiskers; sideburns
whiskers (on a cat, etc.); feelers (on an insect, etc.); (chin) tuft
Finance; Usu. ヒゲ
shadow (on a candlestick chart)
moustache; mustache
Kabuki
use of blue eyebrow pencil to indicate a character has shaved his cheeks
Word usually written using kana alone
bristly beard; bristly mustache
こしゅ／こぜん only
tiger whiskers
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