# 鎧

| 鎧 | U+93A7, &#37799; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-93A7 |
| ← 鎦 [U+93A6] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 鎨 → [U+93A8] |

## Translingual
### Han character

鎧 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 金山一廿 (CUMT), four-corner 8211$_8$, composition ⿰釒豈)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1318, character 5
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40735
* Dae Jaweon: page 1817, character 27
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4241, character 2
* Unihan data for U+93A7

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 鎧
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 獃 | *tŋɯː, *ŋɯː |
| 剴 | *kŋɯːl, *ŋɯːl |
| 凱 | *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ |
| 愷 | *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ |
| 塏 | *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ |
| 鎧 | *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̊ʰɯːls |
| 颽 | *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ |
| 暟 | *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ |
| 闓 | *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̊ʰɯːls |
| 豈 | *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̊ʰɯlʔ |
| 隑 | *ɡɯːls, *ŋɯːl |
| 皚 | *ŋɯːl |
| 嵦 | *ŋɡɯːl |
| 敳 | *ŋɯːl |
| 磑 | *ŋɯːl, *ŋuːl, *ŋuːls |
| 螘 | *ŋralʔ, *ŋɯlʔ |
| 覬 | *krɯls |
| 溰 | *ŋɯl |
| 顗 | *ŋɯlʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̊ʰɯːls): semantic 金 + phonetic 豈 (OC *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̊ʰɯlʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): kǎi (kai$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄎㄞˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hoi$^2$ / koi$^3$
* Eastern Min (BUC): kāi
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: kǎi
*** Zhuyin: ㄎㄞˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: kǎi
*** Wade–Giles: kʻai$^3$
*** Yale: kǎi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kae
*** Palladius: кай (kaj)
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰaɪ̯²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hoi$^2$ / koi$^3$
*** Yale: hói / koi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hoi$^2$ / koi$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hoi$^2$ / koi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /hɔːi̯³⁵/, /kʰɔːi̯³³/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: kāi
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰai³³/
* Middle Chinese: khojX, khojH
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 |
| Baxter | khojX | khojH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kʰʌi$^X$/ | /kʰʌi$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʰəi$^X$/ | /kʰəi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kʰɒi$^X$/ | /kʰɒi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kʰəj$^X$/ | /kʰəj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /kʰᴀi$^X$/ | /kʰᴀi$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /kʰɒi$^X$/ | /kʰɒi$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /kʰɑ̆i$^X$/ | /kʰɑ̆i$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | kǎi | kài |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | hoi$^2$ | hoi$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.qʰˤəjʔ/, /*C.qʰˤəjʔ-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ/, /*ŋ̊ʰɯːls/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 鎧 | 鎧 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | kǎi | kǎi |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ khoj$^X$ › | ‹ khoj$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*C.qʰˁəjʔ/ | /*C.qʰˁəjʔ-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 | /*ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ/ | /*ŋ̊ʰɯːls/ |

### Definitions

鎧
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) armor

### Compounds

* 唐猊鎧甲 / 唐猊铠甲 (tángní kǎijiǎ)
* 瑩鎧 / 莹铠
* 袍鎧 / 袍铠 (páokǎi)
* 鎧仗 / 铠仗
* 鎧甲 / 铠甲 (kǎijiǎ)
* 鎧馬 / 铠马

### References

* “鎧”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Alternative forms

* 甲

### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

#### Readings

* Go-on: かい (kai)
* Kan-on: かい (kai)
* Kan’yō-on: がい (gai)
* Kun: よろい (yoroi, 鎧)、よろう (yorou, 鎧う)

### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
* Kanji in this term
* 鎧
* よろい Jinmeiyō
* kun'yomi

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) よろい [yòróí] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [jo̞ɾo̞i]

### Noun

鎧(よろい) • (yoroi)
* armor

## Korean
### Hanja

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