Keyword
first
- armor
- shell
- fingernails
- 1st heavenly stem
- Frequency
- #1308
- Strokes
- 5
Readings
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Used in vocabulary
甲
first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 (shítiāngān); (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 (bǎojiǎ) system (old); …
装甲
vehicle armor
指甲
fingernail
甲板
deck (of a ship or boat)
装甲车
armored car
西甲
La Liga, the top division of the Spanish football league system
意甲
Serie A, the top division of the Italian football league system
甲状腺
(anatomy) thyroid gland
铠甲
armor
甲骨文
oracle script; oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
盔甲
armor; body armor and helmet
甲烷
methane CH4
甲级
first rate; top class; excellent
三甲
3rd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination; (hospital ranking) A-grade tertiary (the highest level) (abbr. for 三级甲等 (sānjíjiǎděng))
甲醛
formaldehyde (HCHO)
马六甲
Malacca or Melaka (town and state in Malaysia), also strait between Malaysia and Sumatra
甲子
first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干 (tiāngān) and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支 (dìzhī)); the sixty-year cycle
铁甲
mail plating; armor; armor plating
甲午
thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014
甲虫
beetle
马甲
corset; sockpuppet (Internet slang); vest (dialect)
甲型
type A; type I; alpha-
甲午战争
First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
机甲
mecha (human-operated robots in Japanese manga)