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    3. 鬢削ぎ

    鬢削ぎ

    鬢びん削そぎ​

    cutting a person's sidelocks

    NTNounCulture & TraditionsHistoryKanji Vocab39 strokes

    鬢そぎ鬢枇鬢曽木鬢除ぎ

    びんそぎ

    Noun

    1.
    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)
    archaic

    Stroke 0 / 39

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    Characters that make up this word

    鬢
    sideburns
    Kanji
    削
    けず.る・はつ.る・そ.ぐ…(2)
    plane・sharpen・whittle・pare・shave
    Kanji
    ぎ
    gi
    Kana
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