帼
guó

women's headgear

Components

巾
巾 Meaning component
jīn cloth

cloth

国
国 Sound component
guó nation

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

幗 women's headgear Traditional

Components

巾
巾 Meaning component
jīn cloth

cloth

國
國 Sound component
guó nation

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʷɯːɡs
kʷrɯːɡ

說文解字

婦人首飾。从巾國聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)