甲 jiǎ
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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) -
adjective
first
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 甲等 first-class (Guoyu '甲' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '甲' 5; Wu and Tee 2015, 1465) -
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) -
noun
Kangxi radical 102
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: Alternate form for 田 (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7) -
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) -
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) -
noun
administrative unit
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In imperial China (Guoyu '甲' n 7; XHZD '甲' 6) -
noun
sheath
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Outer protective sheath for sprouting plants (Kroll 2015 '甲' 1) -
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) -
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) -
noun
soldier
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 军人 or 兵士 (Guoyu '甲' n 3) -
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) -
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) -
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
- 甲卒 an armored soldier
- 苯甲酸钠(苯甲酸鈉) sodium benzoate, E211 (a food preservative)
- 副甲状腺(副甲狀腺) parathyroid (Tw)
- 龟甲宝螺(龜甲寶螺) Mauritius cowry / Mauritia mauritiana
- 胸甲 breastplate
- 甲戌 eleventh year A11 of the 60 year cycle
- 甲等 first grade
- 前甲板 forward deck (of a boat)
- 脚指甲(腳指甲) toenail
- 盔甲 armor / body armor and helmet
- 指甲剪 nail clipper
- 甲氧基 methoxy
- 下鼻甲(下鼻甲) inferior nasal conchae ; inferior nasal conchae
- 指甲油 nail polish
- 抗耐甲氧西林金葡菌 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
- 氨基甲酸酯类化合物(氨基甲酸酯類化合物) carbamate
- 甲午 thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014
- 前三甲 top three
- 甲辰 41st year A5 of the 60 year cycle
- 苯甲酰氯 benzoil chloride C6H5COCl
- 满城尽带黄金甲(滿城盡帶黃金甲) Curse of the Golden Flower
- 尼布甲尼撒 Nebuchadnezzar
- 指甲钳(指甲鉗) nail clipper
- 甲状腺肿(甲狀腺腫) goiter (enlargement of thyroid gland)
- 甲紫 gentian violet
- 甲型肝炎 hepatitis A
- 甲状旁腺(甲狀旁腺) parathyroid
- 甲方 first party
- 苯甲酸 benzoic acid C6H5COOH
- 甲流 type A influenza
- 铁甲车(鐵甲車) armored car
- 二甲基砷酸 dimethylarsenic acid (CH3)2AsO2H / cacodylic acid
- 咬甲癖 onychophagia (nail biting)
- 带甲(帶甲) an armored soldier
- 甲二醇 methylene glycol
- 甲壳虫类(甲殼蟲類) coleoptera
- 三硝基甲苯 trinitrotoluene (TNT)
- 甲骨文 oracle bone script
- 甲酚 cresol
- 甲胄 armour
- 甲壳亚门(甲殼亞門) a crab
- 科甲 imperial examinations
- 甲申 Jia Shen year
- 甲虫(甲蟲) a beetle
Also contained in
甲仙乡 、 甲骨 、 马六甲 、 甲申政变 、 龟甲万 、 保甲 、 青甲
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- 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
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- 第五十六回 Chapter 56 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 35
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- 卷二百〇六 志第一百五十九 藝文五 Volume 206 Treatises 159: Arts and Literature 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 27
- 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 26
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 甲三 (甲三) 先甲三日 — Book of Changes 易經, 蠱 Gu — count: 4
- 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
- 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
- 甲首 (甲首) 甲首三百 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 3