1. noun a hairpin
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '笄'; Guoyu '笄' n; Kroll 2015 '笄' 1, p. 182; Mathews 1931 '笄', p. 53; Unihan '笄'; XHZD '笄', p. 308)
  2. noun a fifteen year old girl
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '笄' 2a, p. 182; Unihan '笄')
  3. noun coming of age ceremony for a girl
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '笄' 2, p. 182)

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  • 编笄(編笄) a bamboo hairpin or comb
  • 骨笄 a bone hairpin
  • 笄冠 to have just attained maturity (traditional)
  • 及笄 to reach marriageable age
  • 笄之年 beginning of maturity (of a girl)
  • 副笄 a married woman's hairpin
  • 玉笄 a jade hairpin
  • 笄礼(笄禮) ritual of binding a girl's hair with a hairpin at age 15
  • 笄蛭 a kind of earthworm
  • 笄丱 a hairpin used for a child who has just turned of age
  • 加笄 put a pin in a hair bun
  • 笄年 beginning of maturity (of a girl)

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