甲
HSK 5freq #2984
Meanings
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- 1.first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shí tiān gān]
- 2.(used for an unspecified person or thing)
- 3.first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc)
- 4.letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc
- 5.armor plating
- 6.shell or carapace
- 7.(of the fingers or toes) nail
- 8.bladed leather or metal armor (old)
- 9.ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old)
- 10.civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bǎo jiǎ] system (old)
- 11.ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
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Wiktionary
- 1.shell; carapace
- 2.plate armor
- 3.nail (plate at the end of fingers and toes)
- 4.the first of the ten heavenly stems
- 5.number one; first; A
- 6.metho-
- 7.to be first in; to be unparalleled among
- 8.pronoun for an unspecified or unknown person or thing
- 9.a surname
- 10.unit of land (area) measure, equivalent to 2,934 坪 (píng) or 0.97 hectares, roughly 2.1 acres
- 11.Used after a verb or an adjective and before a degree complement.
- 12.to; until; to the extent
- 13.very; really; badly
- 14.how is it that; how could
- 15.since; as; now that; considering
- 16.gay; homosexual
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形): A pictogram of the protective hard shell, carapace, or scales of an animal, or a suit of armor made of connected plates. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krap (“shell; shield”). Cognate with Tibetan ཁྲབ (khrab, “coat of mail; shield”). Perhaps related to 鞈 (OC *kuːb, *kruːb, “leather jerkin or cuirass”) (Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
甲之蜜糖，乙之砒霜。
One man's meat is another man's poison.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
一甲一甲一名一甲子一鱗半甲一鳞半甲一鱗片甲一鳞片甲丁甲丁甲山上元甲子三甲上甲下甲三鹵甲烷三卤甲烷三鼎甲丘甲丘逢甲丟盔卸甲丢盔卸甲丟盔拋甲丢盔抛甲丟盔撩甲丢盔撩甲丟盔棄甲丢盔弃甲中甲丹甲丹鉛甲乙丹铅甲乙
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Related words
指甲 fingernail甲级 first rate甲苯 toluene C6H5CH3甲板 deck (of a ship or boat)二甲 2nd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 4th place and up)甲寅 51st year A3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1974 or 2034鳖甲 turtle shell趾甲 toenail甲肝 hepatitis A甲胄 armor甲子 first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干[tiān gān] and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支[dì zhī])甲方 party A (in a contract) (cf. 乙方[yǐ fāng], party B)