EntryCommon
  1. Noun

    helmet (of a warrior); headpiece

    勝って兜の緒を締めよ。
    You must keep up your guard even after a victory.

Also written 冑【かぶと】甲【かぶと】胄【かぶと】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

helmet, head piece

Kun
かぶと
On
トウ
Strokes
11
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Frequency
2034 of 2500
Radical
legs

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Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
2-9-2SKIP code
4c8.16The Kanji Dictionary
7721.7Four corner code
515cUnicode hex code
1-19-85JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
232Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
364New Nelson (John Haig)
3499Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2455Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2854Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2870Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1800Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1386Morohashi
dou1Pinyin reading
duKorean reading