髻 — 16 strokes ／ Radical「髟」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 16 strokes ／ Radical「髟」
- On
- ケイ・キツ
- Kun
- たぶさ・みずら・もとどり
- Meaning
- a topknot
Origin
Hair 髟 with 吉, auspicious, as phonetic: hair gathered and tied on top of the head.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 髻もとどり
a topknot
- 髻を切るもとどりをきる
to renounce the world
Example
髻を切って出家する。
They cut off the topknot and take vows.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)