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鎧

kǎi

armor

Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 豈 represents the sound.

Components
釒 meaning component

釒  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

釒 is a component form of 金.

豈 sound component

豈  Sound component

qǐ, kǎi

  

victorious music, happy

Evolution

鎧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鎧 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
鎧 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

铠 (鎧) 

kǎi

armor, chain mail; armor

Most common words with 鎧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

铠甲

armor

铠

armor

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.qʰˤəjʔ

khojX

kǎi

coat of mail

*C.qʰˤəjʔ-s

khojH

kǎi

coat of mail


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4314th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

铠

Unicode

U+93A7

Shuowen

“鎧，甲也。从金，豈聲。”


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