甲

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Pictographic, it depicts the shell of a turtle.

[edit] Han character

甲 (radical 102 田+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 田中 (WL), four-corner 6050₀)

1. armor, shell
2. fingernails
3. the first of the ten heavenly stems

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 758, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21725
• Dae Jaweon: page 1167, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2525, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7532

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

甲 (Yale gaap3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

甲 (common kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: こう (kō), かん (kan)
• Kun: よろい (yoroi), つめ (tsume), きのえ (kinoe)

[edit] Compounds

• 甲虫 (kōchū)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

甲 (hangeul 갑, revised gap, McCune-Reischauer kap, Yale kap)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

甲 (pinyin jiǎ (jia3), shèng (sheng4), tián (tian2), yìng (ying4), Wade-Giles chia³, sheng⁴, t'ien², ying⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 甲A
• 甲B
• 甲醇钠
• 甲基苯骈三氮唑
• 甲基硅油
• 甲基环硅氧烷
• 甲基磺酸
• 甲基磺酰胺
• 甲醚
• 甲醛
• 甲酸
• 甲酸钾
• 甲酸钠
• 甲酸乙酯
• 甲烷
• 甲烷氯化物

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

甲 (giáp, giẹp, kép, nháp, ráp)