Stop biting your nails.
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甲
jiǎ
HSK 3.0 · 5HSK 2.0 · 5
Yue Tan · University of Caen; © 2009 Yue Tan. MP3 preparation: Hugo Lopez / audio-cmn · CC BY-SA 3.0 US
jiǎ · gaap3 (Jyutping)
- first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]
- (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[bao3 jia3] system (old)
- ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
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Character breakdown
甲
- Meaning
- armor, shell; fingernails; 1st heavenly stem
- Radical
- 田
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- ⿻冂？
- Cangjie
- WL
- Four-corner
- 6050.0
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
Biting your fingernails is a bad habit.
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