U+9AE8 "髨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9AE8 "髨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and largely obsolete Chinese character that appears in some classical texts and historical dictionaries. It is composed of the radical for "hair" or "bristle" (髟) combined with a phonetic component, and its traditional meaning relates to a specific type of unkempt or shaved hair, sometimes associated with ancient penal or ritual practices such as hair removal as a form of punishment. While it is not used in modern standard Chinese, it remains encoded in Unicode for the purpose of preserving historical and linguistic documentation, representing a fragment of the vast corpus of traditional East Asian script.