鬢削ぎ

鬢そぎ、 鬢枇、 鬢曽木、 鬢除ぎ

Reading

Kana: びんそぎ

Romaji: binsogi

Definition

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)

Note: archaism

Kanji

鬢

Readings: ビン、 ヒン

Meaning: sideburns

削

Readings: サク、 けず.る、 はつ.る、 そ.ぐ

Meanings: plane, sharpen, whittle, pare, shave

枇

Readings: ビ、 ヒ

Meaning: spoon

曽

Readings: ソウ、 ソ、 ゾウ、 かつ、 かつて、 すなわち

Meanings: formerly, once, before, ever, never, ex-

木

Readings: ボク、 モク、 き、 こ-

Meanings: tree, wood

除

Readings: ジョ、 ジ、 のぞ.く、 -よ.け

Meanings: exclude, division (x/3), remove, abolish, cancel, except