Sideburns is pronounced bìn, meaning the hair on both sides of the face near the ears.

"Sideburns", a modern Chinese standardized first grade character (commonly used), pronounced bìn in Mandarin, was first seen in Jinwen, and is a form-sound character in the Six Books. The basic meaning of the character "鬓" is the hair near the ear next to the face, such as sideburns and sideburns.

"Sideburns", first seen in Jinwen, has the original meaning of sideburns, and later found in Shuowen, the simplified version of the character "鬓" in regular script evolved from the Qin dynasty's small seal script.

Shuo Wen Jie Zi Note

(Sideburns) is the hair of the cheeks. It is also said that the hair is on the side of the face. Jin: beautiful sideburns, grow up to be virtuous. Wei Zhao said: sideburns, hair Ying also. Ming Dao this is so. The other Ying as a class. It is not. Hair Ying, Ying Wo end, close to, like the human neck, so the awl and knife all have Ying, hair also have Ying. The hair is at the bottom of the neck. Up to the top, to the hill gardens, and the side to the cheeks is called the sideburns. The sideburns are also the front of the hair. The first thing that you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

The oldest of the harvest, first and then the stem, the oldest of the hair and white. The first sideburns and the rest of the hair following, after the hair. Wei language common more than not understand. Therefore, it is said in detail.

Sideburns it specifically refers to the hair in front of the ear, that is, the face of the hair near the ear, the hair between the ears. Haircut, in order to beautiful, will also repair sideburns. And to describe a person old, also often use sideburns pale to modify.

The sideburns, above a shaggy, below a bin. Shaggy says long hair, and bin contains the meaning of politeness, respect.