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铠

鎧
kǎi
noun #97,292

Measure Word

一副铠甲 fù

Meanings

  1. 1 armor; a suit of armor (made of metal plates)

Characters

铠
kǎi
armor

Examples

将军披上铠甲，上马出战。
Jiāngjūn pī shàng kǎijiǎ, shàng mǎ chūzhàn.
The general put on his armor and mounted up for battle.
博物馆里陈列着一套唐代铠甲。
Bówùguǎn lǐ chénliè zhe yī tào Tángdài kǎijiǎ.
The museum displays a full set of Tang-dynasty armor.

Tips

usage
Always in 铠甲 (armor). Traditionally 甲 was leather armor and 铠 the metal-plate kind; together they just mean a warrior's protective armor.

Components

radical
钅 jīn
metal; gold (left-side radical)
Metal radical on the left, side-form of 金. It marks the metal nature of plate armor (as opposed to the leather 甲). Same family as 钢 steel and 铁 iron.
phonetic
岂 qǐ
how could; (rhetorical question word)
Right side 岂 supplies the sound (qǐ → kǎi). It is purely phonetic; its rhetorical-question meaning plays no part in this armor word.

Stroke Order

铠 kǎi