鬢

Meaning

鬢 refers specifically to sideburns, the hair growing on the sides of the face in front of the ears.

• 両鬢りょうびん

  sideburns; hair at the sides of the head

• 乱鬢らんびん

  disheveled hair; dishevelled hair; unkempt hair

• 双鬢そうびん

  side locks

• 小鬢こびん

  lock of hair (on the side of the head)

• 撥鬢ばちびん

  Edo-period hairstyle for the common man (the entire head shaved just above the ear, with the remainder tied up in the back)

• 燈籠鬢とうろうびん

  Edo-period hair style with inflated hair at the sides; lantern sideburns

• 糸鬢いとびん

  itobin; 17th century male hairstyle (shaved forehead, chignon, sideburns thinned to the size of a thread)

• 糸鬢奴いとびんやっこ

  person sporting an itobin hairstyle

• 雲鬢花顔うんびんかがん

  beautiful woman (metaphorical)

• 鬢びん

  sidelocks; hair at the temples

• 鬢とろびんとろ

  albacore belly

• 鬢付けびんつけ

  pomade; pomatum; hair oil

• 鬢付け油びんつけあぶら

  pomade; pomatum; hair oil

• 鬢切りびんきり

  binkiri; Edo-period hairstyle with a lock of hair running down from the temples and hanging over the ears

• 鬢削ぎびんそぎ

  cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867)

• 鬢差しびんさし

  bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period)

• 鬢髪びんぱつ

  hair at the temples; hair at the sides of the head

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