甲 jiǎ jià

1. jiǎ noun armor
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Protective armor made from leather or metal; as in 铠甲 (Guoyu '甲' n 2; Kroll 2015 '甲' 3; Unihan '甲'; XHZD '甲' 2)
2. jiǎ adjective first
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 甲等 first-class (Guoyu '甲' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '甲' 5)
3. jiǎ proper noun First Heavenly Stem
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Concept: Heavenly Stem 天干
   Notes: (Guoyu '甲' n 1; Kroll 2015 '甲' 4; Unihan '甲'; XHZD '甲' 1)
4. jiǎ noun Kangxi radical 102
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals 部首
   Notes: Alternate form for 田 (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
5. jiǎ noun finger and toe nails / claw / talon
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 指甲 'fingernail' and 脚趾甲 'toenail' (Guoyu '甲' n 5; Kroll 2015 '甲' 2b; Unihan '甲'; XHZD '甲' 4)
6. jiǎ noun shell
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 硬壳; for example, 龟甲 'tortoise shell' (Guoyu '甲' n 4; Kroll 2015 '甲' 2; Unihan '甲'; XHZD '甲' 3)
7. jiǎ noun administrative unit
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In imperial China (Guoyu '甲' n 7; XHZD '甲' 6)
8. jiǎ noun sheath
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Outer protective sheath for sprouting plants (Kroll 2015 '甲' 1)
9. jiǎ pronoun anonymous character
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For an unknown or fictionary figure; for example, 某甲 'a certain person' (Guoyu '甲' pronoun; Kroll 2015 '甲' 6)
10. jià noun a class of animals with shells
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: For an unknown or fictionary figure (Guoyu '甲' jià; Kroll 2015 '甲' 2a)
11. jiǎ noun soldier
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 军人 or 兵士 (Guoyu '甲' n 3)
12. jiǎ noun military armor
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: Modern military armor; for example, 装甲车 'armored car' (Guoyu '甲' n 6)
13. jiǎ measure word a unit of land
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: Used in Taiwan; equal to 9 公顷 hectares (Guoyu '甲' n 8)
14. jiǎ verb exeeding the norm /to be outstanding
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 超出群众; for example, the idiom 富甲天下 'exceedingly wealthy' (Guoyu '甲' v)

Contained in

• 甲兵 armor and weapons ; an armored soldier ; war
• 甲士 an armored soldier
• 甲卒 an armored soldier
• 下鼻甲(下鼻甲) inferior nasal conchae
• 装甲车(裝甲車) armored car
• 甲骨文 oracle bone script
• 马六甲海峡(馬六甲海峽) Strait of Malacca (Melaka)
• 甲方 first party
• 花甲 complete sexagenary cycle / passage of time
• 甲板 a deck
• 指甲 fingernail
• 甲型 type A / type I / alpha-
• 披甲 to don armor
• 铠甲(鎧甲) armor
• 甲等 grade A / first-class
• 甲戌 eleventh year A11 of the 60 year cycle
• 甲申 Jia Shen year
• 龟甲(龜甲) tortoise shell
• 甲壳亚门(甲殼亞門) a crab
• 甲冑 armour
• 甲胄 armour
• 甲虫(甲蟲) a beetle
• 甲乙 first two of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]
• 甲午 thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014
• 甲子 first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干 and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支 ) / the sixty-year cycle
• 甲寅 51st year A3 of the 60 year cycle
• 甲辰 41st year A5 of the 60 year cycle
• 盔甲 armor / body armor and helmet
• 一甲子 sixty years
• 指甲刀 nail clipper
• 装甲(裝甲) vehicle armor
• 甲壳(甲殼) carapace / crust / outer shell
• 鳞甲(鱗甲) scale / plate of armor
• 铁甲(鐵甲) mail plating / armor / armor plating
• 甲醇 methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / wood alcohol / wood spirit
• 甲级(甲級) first rate / top class / excellent

Also contained in

孔甲 、 甲骨 、 中日甲午战争 、 甲午战争 、 马六甲 、 被甲庄严会 、 大甲 、 六甲 、 一甲 、 甲仙 、 甲烷 、 大甲镇 、 学甲 、 甲基 、 甲仙乡

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Truncated for common words

• 卷一百九十二 志第一百四十五 兵六 Volume 192 Treatises 145: Military 6 History of Song 《宋史》 — count: 104
• 卷34　志第29 經籍三 Volume 34 Treatises 29: Bibliography 3 Book of Sui 《隋書》 — count: 66
• 卷七十九　志第二十九: 　輿服二 Volume 79 Treatises 32: Carriages and Clothes 2 History of Yuan 《元史》 — count: 60
• 卷一百九十一 志第一百四十四 兵五 Volume 191 Treatises 144: Military 5 History of Song 《宋史》 — count: 54
• 卷二百五十七 列傳第一百四十五 張鶴鳴 董漢儒 趙彥 王洽 梁廷棟 熊明遇 張鳳翼 陳新甲 馮元飇 Volume 257 Biographies 145: Zhang Heming, Dong Hanru, Zhao Yan, Wang Qia, Liang Tingdong, Xiong Mingyu, Zhang Fengyi, Chen Xinjia, Feng Yuanbiao History of Ming 《明史》 — count: 48
• 卷三百九十七 列傳第一百五十六 徐誼 吳獵 項安世 薛叔似 劉甲 楊輔 劉光祖 Volume 397 Biographies 156: Xu Yi, Wu Lie, Xiang Anshi, Xue Shusi, Liu Jia, Yang Fu, Liu Guangzu History of Song 《宋史》 — count: 37
• 卷一百四十五 志第九十八 儀衞三 Volume 145 Treatises 98: Ceremonial Guards 3 History of Song 《宋史》 — count: 36
• 第五十六回 Chapter 56 Water Margin 《水滸傳》 — count: 35
• 卷二十三上　　　志第十三上　　儀衛上 Volume 23a Treatises 13: Ceremonies 1 New Book of Tang 《新唐書》 — count: 31
• 《殷本紀》 Annals of Yin Records of the Grand Historian 《史記》 — count: 30

Collocations

• 授甲 (授甲) 乃歸授甲 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 《春秋左氏傳》, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 9
• 甲父 (甲父) 石甲父 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 《春秋左氏傳》, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 7
• 丘甲 (丘甲) 作丘甲 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 《春秋左氏傳》, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 5
• 车甲 (車甲) 國人則矜其車甲 — The Book of Songs 《詩經》, 國風‧秦‧小戎 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qin - Xiao Rong — count: 5
• 甲车 (甲車) 及甲車四百六十乘 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 《春秋左氏傳》, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 4
• 狄甲 (狄甲) 晉人滅赤狄甲氏 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 《春秋左氏傳》, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 4
• 伏甲 (伏甲) 伏甲將攻之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 《春秋左氏傳》, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 4
• 甲氏 (甲氏) 晉人滅赤狄甲氏 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 《春秋左氏傳》, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 4
• 甲三 (甲三) 先甲三日 — Book of Changes 《易經》, 蠱 Gu — count: 4
• 上甲 (上甲) 系而待六月上甲 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 《春秋公羊傳》, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 3