Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- jī
English
- a hairpin
- 15 years old
- fifteen-year-old girl
- hairpin for bun
As a component in
Words containing 笄
- 香笄hoeng1 gai1
the remaining supporting stick of an incense
- 笄冠gai1 gun3
to have just attained maturity (traditional)
- 香笄腳hoeng1 gai1 goek3
fleshless leg, very skinny legs (as thin as an incense
- 笄蛭gai1 zat6
a kind of earthworm
- 笄年gai1 nin4
beginning of maturity (of a girl)
- 及笄kap6 gai1
to reach marriageable age (a girl's fifteenth birthday)