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笄

笄 U+7B04, 笄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B04
← 笃
[U+7B03] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 笅 →
[U+7B05]

Translingual

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Han character

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

Derived characters

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References

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

Chinese

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trad. 笄
simp. # 笄
alternative forms 筓

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 笄
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script
   
Characters in the same phonetic series (幵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
笄 *kŋeː
枅 *kŋeː
蚈 *kŋeː, *ŋ̊ʰeːn
羿 *ŋeːs
栞 *ŋ̊ʰaːn
雃 *ŋaːn, *ŋ̊ʰeːn
詽 *ŋreːn, *tŋ̊ʰeːn
揅 *ŋeːn
幵 *kŋeːn
鳽 *kŋeːn, *ŋeːn, *ŋ̊ʰreːŋ, *ŋreːɡ
豣 *kŋeːn, *ŋeːns
麉 *kŋeːn, *ŋ̊ʰeːn
趼 *kŋeːnʔ, *ŋeːn, *ŋeːns
汧 *ŋ̊ʰeːn, *ŋ̊ʰeːns
岍 *ŋ̊ʰeːn
研 *ŋɡeːn, *ŋeːns
妍 *ŋeːn
訮 *hŋeːn
鈃 *ɡeːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kŋeː) : semantic ��� (“bamboo”) + phonetic 幵 (OC *kŋeːn).

Pronunciation

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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
Baxter kej
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gai1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 笄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kej ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[k]ˁer/ (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

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笄

  1. (historical) hairpin of women
  2. (historical, of a woman) to become an adult at age 15 and start wearing a hairpin

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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笄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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  • Go-on: け (ke)
  • Kan-on: けい (kei)
  • Kun: こうがい (kōgai)

Etymology

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Kanji in this term
笄
こうがい
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
 笄 on Japanese Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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Noun

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笄(こうがい) • (kōgai) 

  1. tapered hair-pin with a flat end used to put up hair
  2. square hair stick used as a structural element in women's hairstyles
  3. a sword accessory in the shape of a tapered hair-pin, used as a grooming tool
  4. Clipping of 笄髷 (kōgai-wage, “an Edo period women's hairstyle”).
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