Queue (hairstyle)

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Queue
Chinese-American men with queues in Chinatown, San Francisco, 1880s
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	辮子
Simplified Chinese	辫子
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin biànzi Yue: Cantonese Jyutping bin1 zi2 Southern Min Hokkien POJ pīⁿ-á (辮仔)
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	頭鬃尾 or 毛尾仔
Transcriptions Southern Min Hokkien POJ mn̂g-bué-á/mn̂g-bé-á or thâu-chang-bué/thâu-chang-bé
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᠰᠣᠨᠴᠣᡥᠣ
Romanization	soncoho

A queue or cue is a hairstyle worn by the Jurchen and Manchu peoples of Manchuria, and was later required to be worn by male subjects of Qing China.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Hair on top of the scalp is grown long and is often braided, while the front portion of the head is shaved. The distinctive hairstyle led to its wearers being targeted during anti-Chinese riots in Australia and the United States.^[6]

The edict that Han Chinese men and others under Manchu rule give up their traditional hairstyles and wear the queue, the Tifayifu, was met with resistance, although opinions about the queue did change over time. Han women were never required to wear their hair in the traditional women's Manchu style, liangbatou, although that too was a symbol of Manchu identity.^[7]