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方巾
fāng​jīn

scholar's hood

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  • 方巾气 fāng​jīn​qì pedantic
    (literary) describes a person who is pedantic, conservative, or stuck in old ways of thinking; originally referring to the scholarly air of students in the Ming dynasty who wore square caps called [[方巾|方巾|fang1 jin1]]
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