甲 jiǎ
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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, p. 193; Mathews 1931 '甲', p. 82; Unihan '甲'; XHZD '甲' 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, p. 193; Mathews 1931 '甲', p. 82; Wu and Tee 2015, 1465) -
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, p. 193; Mathews 1931 '甲', p. 82; Unihan '甲'; XHZD '甲' 1) -
jiǎ
noun
Kangxi radical 102
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: Alternate form for 田 (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7) -
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, p. 193; Mathews 1931 '甲', p. 82; Unihan '甲'; XHZD '甲' 4) -
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, p. 193; Unihan '甲'; XHZD '甲' 3) -
jiǎ
noun
administrative unit; a group of ten households
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In imperial China (Guoyu '甲' n 7; Mathews 1931 '甲', p. 82; XHZD '甲' 6) -
jiǎ
noun
sheath
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Outer protective sheath for sprouting plants (Kroll 2015 '甲' 1, p. 193) -
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, p. 193) -
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, p. 193) -
jiǎ
noun
soldier
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 军人 or 兵士 (Guoyu '甲' n 3) -
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) -
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) -
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
- 苯甲醛 benzaldehyde C6H5CHO, the simplest aromatic aldehyde
- 被甲兵 wearing armor and carying a weapon
- 年甲 age
- 倒戈卸甲 to lay down arms
- 盔甲 armor; body armor and helmet
- 坚甲利兵(堅甲利兵) stiff armor and sharp weapons; well prepared
- 三鼎甲 the top three graduates from the palace exams
- 氯甲烷 methyl chloride CH3Cl
- 弃甲曳兵(棄甲曳兵) to cast away armor and drag weapons [in defeat]
- 奇门遁甲(奇門遁甲) ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today)
- 花甲之年 a person sixty years of age
- 铁甲(鐵甲) mail plating; armor; armor plating
- 解衣卸甲 remove uniform and put down armor; stop battle
- 登甲第 top ranked scholar
- 二甲基砷酸 dimethylarsenic acid (CH3)2AsO2H; cacodylic acid
- 甲裳 leather outer garment worn in battle
- 卜甲 oracle tortoise shell
- 甲胄 armour
- 苯甲酸钠(苯甲酸鈉) sodium benzoate, E211 (a food preservative)
- 甲状腺(甲狀腺) thyroid gland
- 修指甲 manicure
- 装甲巡洋舰(裝甲巡洋艦) armoured cruiser
- 花甲 complete sexagenary cycle; passage of time
- 登上甲 top ranked scholar
- 高甲戏(高甲戲) Gaojia opera
- 案兵束甲 to rest weapons and loosen armor; to relax from fighting
- 铁甲武士(鐵甲武士) a [European style] knight
- 甲流 type A influenza
- 甲卒 an armored soldier
- 甲沟炎(甲溝炎) paronychia
- 窃蠹甲(竊蠹甲) drugstore beetle
- 衣甲 armor
- 铁甲舰(鐵甲艦) ironclad; an armor-plated battleship
- 科甲 imperial examinations
- 铁甲车(鐵甲車) armored car
- 被犀甲 we don our breast-plates of hide
- 甲紫 gentian violet
- 甲壳类(甲殼類) crustacean
- 宫甲(宮甲) a palace guard
- 二氯甲烷 dichloromethane
- 甲乙 first two of the ten heavenly stems ; in order ; to evaluate; to rank
- 擐甲持戈 to put on armor and carry a weapon; equipped for battle
- 六十甲子 a cylcle of sixty years ; sixty years old
- 聚甲醛 polyformaldehyde (CH2O)n
- 穿山甲 pangolin (Manis pentadactylata); scaly ant-eater
- 甲壳亚门(甲殼亞門) Crustacea
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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: 55
- 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
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- 第五十六回 Chapter 56 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 31
- 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: 30
- 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
- 卷五十九 志第四十九 藝文三 Volume 59 Treatises 55: The Arts 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 25
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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: 6
- 甲盾 (甲盾) 其為甲盾五兵何 — Mozi 墨子, 卷六 節用上 Book 6 - Economy of Expenditures I — 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
- 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
- 作甲 (作甲) 丘作甲 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — 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