巾 Radical 50 — a cloth, a towel; a kerchief hung from the belt
jīn (first tone, high and level)
a cloth, a towel; a kerchief hung from the belt
Radical 503 strokes1 characters
Where the shape comes from
A length of cloth hanging from a sash: the horizontal is the belt, and what falls below it is the cloth with its central fold. It marks textiles and the things cut from them: 布, 带, 帽, 常 — and 毛巾, the towel, is literally the napped cloth.