kǎi

victorious

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
岂 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

kǎi

  

victorious music, happy

几 sound component

  Sound component

  

small table

Evolution

凯 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
凯 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
凯 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
凯 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
凯 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

kǎi

triumphant; triumph, victory; victorious; chi (Greek letter Χχ)

() 

Kǎi

surname Kai

Most common words with 凯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

triumphant

凯文

Kevin (person name)

凯特

Kate (name)

凯蒂

(name) Kitty, Cathy, Katy, Caddy etc

凯旋

to return in triumph

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.qʰˤəjʔ

khojX

kǎi

pleasant


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.8349% of movies

796th most common character in movies

1447th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+51EF


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