Japanese

kanji
Definitions
  • ornamental hairpin

Etymology

Compound from Japanese 髪 (hair, head hair, hair of the head, hair on the head) + Japanese ojp (god, spirit, sticker-through, region, side, essence, force, girl, under, phonetic character, direction, gods, yellow, beneath, ground, bottom, female)+ Japanese 挿し + Japanese 連用形 (meeting, house, counselor, store, gathering, building)+ Japanese continuative or stem form of verb ja-l + Japanese 挿す sasu “to stick through, to insert”.

Origin

Japanese

挿す sasu “to stick through, to insert”

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