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鎧

鎧

See also: 铠

Translingual

Han character

鎧 (radical 167 金+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. 鎧
simp. 铠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鎧
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (豈) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
獃 *tŋɯː, *ŋɯː
剴 *kŋɯːl, *ŋɯːl
凱 *ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ
愷 *ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ
塏 *ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ
鎧 *ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̥ʰɯːls
颽 *ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ
暟 *ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ
闓 *ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̥ʰɯːls
豈 *ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̥ʰɯlʔ
隑 *ɡɯːls, *ŋɯːl
皚 *ŋɯːl
嵦 *ŋɡɯːl
敳 *ŋɯːl
磑 *ŋɯːl, *ŋuːl, *ŋuːls
螘 *ŋralʔ, *ŋɯlʔ
覬 *krɯls
溰 *ŋɯl
顗 *ŋɯlʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鎧 鎧
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 溪 (29) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 咍 (41) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 苦亥切 苦蓋切
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 鎧 鎧
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 鎧 鎧
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10105 10110
Phonetic
component		 豈 豈
Rime
group		 微 微
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 愷 磕
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋ̥ʰɯːlʔ/ /*ŋ̥ʰɯːls/

Definitions

鎧

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Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

鎧

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Noun

鎧 ‎(hiragana よろい, romaji yoroi)

  1. armor

Korean

Hanja

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

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