髷
topknot
16 strokes.
Readings
- まげ (kun reading): 髷 (まげ) bun (hairstyle); 丸髷 (まるまげ) traditional married woman's hair style with an oval chignon on top
- キョク (on reading)
- わげ (kun reading): 忍髷 (しのぶわげ) shinobu-wake; 兵庫髷 (ひょうごわげ) female hairstyle starting from the Keicho period
Components
- 髟
- 曲
- ｜ radical vertical stroke
- 厶 radical private
- 彡 radical bristles; hair
- 日 radical sun; day
- 長 radical long
- 髟 radical long hair
Words using 髷
- 髷 (まげ) bun (hairstyle)
- 丸髷 (まるまげ) traditional married woman's hair style with an oval chignon on top
- 島田髷 (しまだまげ) pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period
- 付け髷 (つけまげ) hairpiece
- 大銀杏髷 (おおいちょうまげ) ginkgo-leaf top-knot worn by makuuchi and juryo division wrestlers
- 忍髷 (しのぶわげ) shinobu-wake
- 兵庫髷 (ひょうごわげ) female hairstyle starting from the Keicho period
- 笄髷 (こうがいわげ) type of Japanese woman's hairstyle using a hairpin (Edo period)
12 words in all.