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铠

kǎi

Character Traditional 鎧

What 铠 means

1. armor

Words starting with 铠

• 铠甲kǎi jiǎarmor
• 铠装kǎi zhuāng(of a cable etc) armored

Words containing 铠

• 甲铠jiǎ kǎiarmor

Characters built on 岂

These share the phonetic component 岂 (qǐ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 凯kǎi(bound form) triumphal music; (Taiwan; colloquial) generous with money…
• 皑ái(literary) white as snow
• 恺kǎijoyful; kind
• 剀kǎiused in 剀切
• 硙áiused in 硙硙
• 垲kǎidry terrain

Characters that look like 铠

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 顿dùnto stop; to pause; to arrange
• 锁suǒto lock; to lock up; a lock
• 锐ruìacute
• 铯sècesium (chemistry)
• 皑ái(literary) white as snow
• 桤qīalder

Sounds the same

Read kǎi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 慨indignant; generous; to sigh (with emotion)
• 凯(bound form) triumphal music; (Taiwan; colloquial) generous with money…
• 恺joyful; kind
• 楷model; pattern; regular script (calligraphic style)
• 锴high quality iron
• 剀used in 剀切
• 垲dry terrain
• 闿to loosen; to open
• 颽balmy; genial as wind
• 岂old variant of 恺; old variant of 凯