发簪

髮簪
fàzān
noun #33,430

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 hairpin
  2. 2 ornamental hair stick (worn in a bun)

Examples

HSK 4
Tā dài zhe yī zhī yù fàzān.
She is wearing a jade hairpin.
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Gǔdài nǚzǐ yòng fàzān pán tóu.
In ancient times, women used hairpins to coil up their hair.

Tips

culture
Not the modern bobby pin. 发簪 is the long single-stick hair ornament - often jade, silver, or wood - that holds an entire bun in place. In imperial times, a girl's coming-of-age ceremony was called 笄礼, 'hairpin rite', because she received her first at fifteen. A staple of 汉服 (Han-style dress) revival outfits today.
memory
(hair) + (ornamental pin). The character has a 'bamboo' radical on top - many early hairpins were carved from bamboo before metal and jade became fashionable.

Stroke Order

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