also: かみがしら
noun
hair on one's head
Refers specifically to the hair growing on the head, as opposed to facial or body hair.
年を取ると髪頭が薄くなる。
As you get older, the hair on your head thins.
noun
kanji "hair" radical at top
Only with reading かみがしら
Refers to the kanji radical 髟 (かみがしら), which appears at the top of characters related to hair, such as 髪 and 髭.
「髪」という字の上の部分は「かみがしら」と呼ばれる部首です。
The top part of the character 髪 is a radical called かみがしら.
Compound of 髪 (かみ, 'hair') and 頭 (かしら, 'head'). The reading かみがしら is a rendaku variant.