幗 — 14 strokes ／ Radical「巾」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 14 strokes ／ Radical「巾」
- On
- カク
- Kun
- —
- Meaning
- a woman's headdress
Origin
Cloth 巾 with 國 as phonetic: the cloth headdress worn by women.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 巾幗きんかく
a woman's headdress; a woman
- 頭巾ずきん
a hood
Example
巾幗は女性を指す語としても使われた。
The word also came to stand for women themselves.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)