甲
Meanings · gaap3
- (noun) Grade A; (of soccer) Premier (League)
Meanings · gaap3
- first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干
- (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 (old)
- to be better than
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 甲 jiǎ CC-CEDICT · Mandarinfirst of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 shí tiān gān; (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); …
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: jia3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 19 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
gaap3
Cantonese word readings for 甲. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- shell; carapace
- plate armor
- nail (plate at the end of fingers and toes)
- the first of the ten heavenly stems
- number one; first; A
- (organic chemistry) metho-
- to be first in; to be unparalleled among
- pronoun for an unspecified or unknown person or thing
- a surname
character · Etymology 2
- (Taiwan) unit of land (area) measure, equivalent to 2,934 坪 (píng) or 0.97 hectares, roughly 2.1 acres
character · Etymology 3
- (Min, Southern) Used after a verb or an adjective and before a degree complement.
- (Taiwan) to; until; to the extent
character · Etymology 3
- (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Philippine Hokkien) very; really; badly
character · Etymology 4
- (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) how is it that; how could
- (Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) since; as; now that; considering
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) only after; only then; not ... until
character · Etymology 5
- (Southern Min) alternative form of 佮 (kah, kap, “and; with”)
character · Etymology 6
- (Southern Min) alternative form of 共 (kā)
character · Etymology 7
- (Taiwanese Mandarin) gay; homosexual
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