笄
jī

hairpin

笄 jī
hairpin
(bound form) a hairpin used in ancient China for holding a hair bun in place
fifteen years old
(bound form) refers to a girl reaching fifteen years of age, traditionally the time when she began to wear her hair up with a hairpin to mark adulthood

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Frequency
Character
Written text
5,703rd most common 0.475 per million
Word
Written text
0.641 per million

Details
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+7B04

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)