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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

WordPinyinMeaning
及笄jí jīto reach marriageable age (a girl's fifteenth birthday)
笄冠jī guānto have just attained maturity (traditional)
笄年jī niánbeginning of maturity (of a girl)
笄蛭jī zhìa 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.

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