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
Xuejia Township, Tainan, Taiwan
paraben (chemistry)
paraben (chemistry)
Nebuchadnezzar
afterdeck
afterdeck
Italian Serie A soccer league
weapons and armor
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
anti-bacterial metronidazole
to don armor
thumbnail
nail clipper
fingernail
nail clipper
nail clipper
boat deck (upper deck on which lifeboats are stored)
to keep ready for battle at all times
to keep ready for battle at all times
certain individual; somebody
to rest weapons and loosen armor (idiom); to relax from fighting
stop fighting; let soldiers rest
mecha (human-operated robots in Japanese manga)
carbamate
carbamate