笄
笄 — gye
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 비녀 계
- Romanization
- gye
- English
- a hairpin; fifteen-year-old girl
- Mandarin
- jī
- Japanese on'yomi
- ケイ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- こうがい
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 竹 (118, 6 residual)
- Unicode
- U+7B04
Parts that make up 笄
- 竹 대 죽 잎이 처진 대나무 둘대나무와 대로 엮은 것, 글 적는 물건
- 开 variant of 幵 나란히 세운 방패 둘‘견·형’ 계열의 소리
How 笄 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 笄 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 竹, 幵.
Japanese words with 笄
- 笄こうがい hairpin
- 笄髷こうがいわげ type of Japanese woman's hairstyle using a hairpin (Edo period)
- 笄ぐるこうがいぐる type of Japanese woman's hairstyle using a hairpin (Edo period)
- 琉球笄リュウキュウコウガイ Kandelia obovata (species of mangrove)
Other hanja read “계”
Other hanja with radical 竹
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