髻
samurai topknot
16 strokes.
Readings
- もとどり (kun reading): 髻 (もとどり) place where hair is gathered together atop the head
- ケイ (on reading): 肉髻 (にくけい) ushnisha (protrusion on the top of a buddha's head); 鴉髻 (あけい) jet-black hair
- キツ (on reading)
- たぶさ (kun reading)
- みずら (kun reading)
- Read as a whole word: 髻華 (うず) flower or branch fastened in the hair
Components
- 髟
- 吉
- 口 radical mouth
- 士 radical scholar; samurai
- 彡 radical bristles; hair
- 長 radical long
- 髟 radical long hair