发簪

髮簪
fàzān
noun #33,430

Measure Word

Meanings

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

Examples

Tā dàizhe yī zhī yù fàzān.
She is wearing a jade hairpin.
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 (jīlǐ), 'hairpin rite', because she received her first at fifteen. A staple of 汉服 (Hànfú, 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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