14 strokes in total
- Hiragana:
- かぴたん
- Alphabet:
- kapitan
- How to write 甲必丹
- 甲: armor, shell; fingernails; 1st heavenly stem
- 必: surely, most certainly; must
- 丹: cinnabar (native HgS); vermilion (artificial HgS used as pigment)
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