笄 — Chinese character
笄
jī
hairpin; fifteen-year-old girl
- Pinyin
- jī
- Radical
- 118 ⽵ (Bamboo)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 开
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bamboo; meaning component ⺮; sound component 开
- Japanese
- 笄 as a kanji
Common words with 笄
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 及笄 | jí jī | to reach marriageable age (a girl's fifteenth birthday) |
| 笄冠 | jī guān | to have just attained maturity (traditional) |
| 笄年 | jī nián | beginning of maturity (of a girl) |
| 笄蛭 | jī zhì | a kind of earthworm |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.