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笄冠
jī​guān

to reach maturity

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 笄 jī
    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
  2. 冠 guàn
    to put on a hat
    to put on a hat; (archaic) to perform the capping ceremony coming-of-age ritual for men at age 20
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