jiǎ jia

first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc)

HSK 5 #1106

Character data

HSK 5
Frequency 1106th character
Radical ⽥ (102.0)
Strokes 5
Index # 239

Definitions

甲 jiǎ
  1. 1. first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc)
  2. 2. letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc
  3. 3. shell or carapace
  4. 4. (of the fingers or toes) nail
  5. 5. first of the ten Heavenly Stems shí tiān gān
  6. 6. (used for an unspecified person or thing)
  7. 7. armor plating
  8. 8. ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old)
  9. 9. bladed leather or metal armor (old)
  10. 10. civil administration unit in the baojia bǎo jiǎ system (old)
  11. 11. ancient Chinese compass point: 75°

Stroke order

甲 stroke order diagram
甲 stroke order animation

Words containing 甲

Word Meaning
first party (law); see also yǐ fāng
armor
formic acid; methanoic acid; formylic acid (HCOOH)
manicure and-or pedicure
fingernail
hepatitis A
cresol (chemistry)
methyl ether CH3OCH3
turtle; terrapin; Taiwan pr. jià yú
pangolin (Manis pentadactylata); scaly ant-eater
complete sexagenary cycle; a 60 year-old person
Liujia township in Tainan, Taiwan
mecha (human-operated robots in Japanese manga)
first two of the ten Heavenly Stems shí tiān gān
mail plating; armor; armor plating
ironclad; an armor-plated battleship
1st rank or top three candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. zhuàng yuán, bǎng yǎn, and tàn huā, respectively)
sixty years
chloroform CHCl3; trichloromethane
3rd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination
trinitrotoluene (TNT)
inferior nasal conchae
Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet
dichloromethane
second rank in old imperial exam