kǎi
armor
Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 豈 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical 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 | |
Unicode | U+93A7 |
Shuowen | “鎧,甲也。从金,豈聲。” |
Sources
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