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笄

笄

Translingual

Han character

笄 (radical 118 竹+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹一廿 (HMT), four-corner 88441, composition ⿱⺮开)

  1. hairpin
  2. fifteen year old girl

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 878, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25862
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1306, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2949, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+7B04

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 笄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (幵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
笄 *kŋeː
枅 *kŋeː
蚈 *kŋeː, *ŋ̥ʰeːn
羿 *ŋeːs
栞 *ŋ̥ʰaːn
雃 *ŋaːn, *ŋ̥ʰeːn
詽 *ŋreːn, *tŋ̥ʰeːn
揅 *ŋeːn
幵 *kŋeːn
鳽 *kŋeːn, *ŋeːn, *ŋ̥ʰreːŋ, *ŋreːɡ
豣 *kŋeːn, *ŋeːns
麉 *kŋeːn, *ŋ̥ʰeːn
趼 *kŋeːnʔ, *ŋeːn, *ŋeːns
汧 *ŋ̥ʰeːn, *ŋ̥ʰeːns
岍 *ŋ̥ʰeːn
研 *ŋɡeːn, *ŋeːns
妍 *ŋeːn
訮 *hŋeːn
鈃 *ɡeːŋ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 笄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 古奚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kei/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kei/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɛj/
Li
Rong		 /kei/
Wang
Li		 /kiei/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 笄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kej ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤer/ (dialect: *-r > *-j)
English hpaililraprin

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 笄
Reading # 1/1
No. 6152
Phonetic
component		 幵
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 雞
Old
Chinese		 /*kŋeː/

Definitions

笄

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Compounds

  • 副笄
  • 加笄
  • 及笄 (jíjī)
  • 弱笄
  • 既笄
  • 磨笄
  • 笄丱
  • 笄冠
  • 笄字
  • 笄年
  • 笄禮／笄礼
  • 編笄／编笄
  • 驢生笄角／驴生笄角
  • 骨笄

Japanese

Kanji

笄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

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