笄

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

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 䗗, 𨲡, 𱈸

References

• 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

trad.		笄
simp. #		笄
alternative forms		筓

Glyph origin

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 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 幵 (OC *kŋeːn). See also the top component of 每.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jī (ji¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jī
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ji
    • Wade–Giles: chi¹
    • Yale: jī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ji
    • Palladius: цзи (czi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gai¹
    • Yale: gāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐi̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kej

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/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gai1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤer/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kŋeː/

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

笄

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

Compounds

• 副笄
• 加笄
• 及笄 (jíjī)
• 弱笄
• 既笄
• 磨笄
• 笄丱
• 笄冠
• 笄字
• 笄年
• 笄禮／笄礼
• 編笄／编笄
• 香笄腳／香笄脚
• 驢生笄角／驴生笄角
• 骨笄

 

References

• “笄”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

笄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ko̞ːɡa̠i]

Noun

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”).