皤

• Color: A muted or weathered white; greyish-white. In descriptions of hair, typically denotes the translucent or greyed white of old age; in descriptions of complexion, suggests an ashen pallor.
• Physicality: Corpulent; often used to describe a physical type that is both pale and plump.

Primarily an adjective modifying nouns (e.g., hair, face, body).

Tang-period reading //bhɑ//; related to 波 (//bo//).

A phono-semantic compound combining 白 (white) and 波 (phonetic).

This is a rare glyph. Its use typically indicates a deliberate choice by the author to specify a particular texture or quality of whiteness rather than using the standard 白. Due to its rarity, consider the possibility of a scribal error for other "white" variants or terms related to 波 (waves), though traditional lexicons support the specific pale/corpulent semantic link.