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笄

jī

hairpin; fifteen-year-old girl

🔤 Pictophonetic: ⺮ (bamboo) provides meaning, 开 provides pronunciation
HSK 10 strokes Uncommon (57%)
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Component Breakdown

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⺮
zhú
bamboo; flute
开
kāi
to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
⿱⺮开 i

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Component Tree i

zhú
⺮
bamboo; flute
📷 Pictographic: Two stalks of bamboo; see 竹
6 strokes
kāi
开
to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
💡 Ideographic: Simplified form of 開; hands 廾 lifting the latch 一 of a door
4 strokes HSK 1

Words Using 笄 (6)