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
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)
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)