龆
shed the milk teeth; young
Closest English meanings
child's changing teeth
The Calligrapher — Chǔ Suíliáng 褚遂良
Tang chancellor and regular-script master of elegant, balanced strokes.
Tang calligrapher (596–658), master of regular script — Tang master of graceful, tensile regular script favored by the imperial court. Tang dynasty
Cultural Story
龆 refers to the changing of a child's teeth, the shedding of milk teeth in early boyhood or girlhood. Combined with 龀, it formed 龆龀, a literary term for childhood itself, found in Han-dynasty histories describing boys with hair hanging loose and teeth still swapping. It belongs to the scholarly vocabulary of the family cycle.
Common words & phrases
- 龆龀 childhood · age of changing teeth
Read the story behind the character
You will rarely hear 龆 spoken aloud; it lives in dictionaries, classical primers, and the names of childhood-essay anthologies. When it appears, 龆龀 names that tender stage of losing baby teeth — roughly what English calls the tooth-fairy years — preserving in two rare characters a detail Chinese writers have observed for two millennia.
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