髻
髻 — gye
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 상투 계
- Romanization
- gye
- English
- hair rolled up in a bun, topknot
- Mandarin
- jì
- Japanese on'yomi
- ケイ, キツ, キチ, ケツ, ゲチ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- たぶさ みずら もとどり
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 髟 (190, 6 residual)
- Unicode
- U+9AFB
Japanese words with 髻
- 髻もとどり place where hair is gathered together atop the head; hair tied (or pinned) together in this position
- 肉髻にくけい ushnisha (protrusion on the top of a buddha's head)
- 鴉髻あけい jet-black hair
- 髻華うず flower or branch fastened in the hair
- 髻鬟けいかん bun (hair); topknot
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)