髪
かみ
hepburn kami
hair
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 髪を切りました。I got a haircut.
- 長い髪が好きです。I like long hair.
Collocations
髪 / 髪の毛 (kami / kami no ke, hair on the head)毛 (ke, hair / fur generally)髪型 (kamigata, hairstyle)美容院 (biyouin, beauty salon)床屋 (tokoya, barber)
Mnemonic
髪 kami — hair on the head specifically. Body-vocabulary precision trap: 髪 (kami) = head hair, 毛 (ke) = hair/fur generally (eyebrow, arm, animals), 髭 (hige) = beard/moustache, 眉 (mayu, mayuge) = eyebrow. English "hair" lumps what Japanese splits into four or five words. Homophone cluster: 髪 (head hair), 神 (god), 紙 (paper), 上 (upper) — four meanings on the same sound, kanji-disambiguated. Onyomi はつ (hatsu): 散髪 (sanpatsu, haircut), 白髪 (shiraga, gray hair, special reading). Learn body words alongside the homophone cluster.
Quick check
Four-way homophone split of kami?