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Translingual

Han character

(radical 167 +10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 金山一廿 (CUMT), four-corner 82118)

  1. armor, chain mail

References

  • KangXi: page 1318, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40735
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1817, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4241, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+93A7

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tŋɯː, *ŋɯː
*kŋɯːl, *ŋɯːl
*ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ
*ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ
*ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ
*ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̥ʰɯːls
*ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ
*ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ
*ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̥ʰɯːls
*ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̥ʰɯlʔ
*ɡɯːls, *ŋɯːl
*ŋɯːl
*ŋɡɯːl
*ŋɯːl
*ŋɯːl, *ŋuːl, *ŋuːls
*ŋralʔ, *ŋɯlʔ
*krɯls
*ŋɯl
*ŋɯlʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (29) (29)
Final () (41) (41)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰʌiX/ /kʰʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰəiX/ /kʰəiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰɒiX/ /kʰɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰəjX/ /kʰəjH/
Li
Rong
/kʰᴀiX/ /kʰᴀiH/
Wang
Li
/kʰɒiX/ /kʰɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰɑ̆iX/ /kʰɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kǎi kài
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kǎi kǎi
Middle
Chinese
‹ khojX › ‹ khojH ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.qʰˤəjʔ/ /*C.qʰˤəjʔ-s/
English coat of mail coat of mail

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10105 10110
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ/ /*ŋ̥ʰɯːls/

Definitions

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Compounds

References


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana よろい, romaji yoroi)

  1. armor

Korean

Hanja

(gae) (hangeul , revised gae, McCune-Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

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