chāi
ornamental hairpin
A metal 釒 fork 叉; 叉 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 釵
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
hairpin | ||
Xue Baochai, female character in Dream of Red Mansions, married to Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉|贾宝玉 |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3631st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+91F5 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“釵，笄屬。从金，叉聲。” |
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