disheveled hair; tousled hair
Describes hair that is messy, tangled, or in disarray, often with a poetic or literary feel.
風で乱れ髪になった。
My hair got tousled by the wind.
彼女は乱れ髪のまま現れた。
She appeared with her hair disheveled.
bedhead; hair messed up from sleep
Standard kanji spelling.
Mixed kana-kanji spelling; less common but still used.
Compound of 乱れ (midare, 'disorder') + 髪 (kami, 'hair'), with rendaku voicing of 髪 to がみ.