Kanji1 / 5
甲 kanji
armor, high (voice), A grade, first class, former, instep, carapace
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
コウカン
Kun readings
きのえ
Words with 甲
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —甲骨文字oracle bone script
- —甲状軟骨thyroid cartilage
- —甲羅蒸しcrab meat mixed with vegetables and egg yolk, steamed inside its shell
- —副甲状腺parathyroid (glands); accessory thyroid glands
- —イカの甲cuttlebone
- —甲状腺腫goiter; goitre
- —甲申事変Gapsin Coup (of Korea; 1884)
- —鼈甲細工article of tortoise shell; tortoiseshell work
- —耳穿山甲Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla)
- —甲種合格passing the physical examination as a Grade One conscript (in the former Japanese military)
- —紋甲いかkisslip cuttlefish (Sepia lycidas); common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)
- —甲信地方Kōshin region
- —甲申政変Gapsin Coup (failed reformist coup d'état in Korea; 1884); Kapsin Coup
- —産近甲龍Kyoto Sangyo University, Kindai University, Konan University and Ryukoku University (group of similarly ranked private universities in the Kansai region)
- —機甲部隊armored unit; armored troops; armored forces
- —甲州葡萄Kōshū (grape variety)
- —甲州味噌Kōshū miso; traditional miso of Yamanashi Prefecture fermented using both rice and barley kōji
- —肩甲挙筋levator scapulae muscle
- —奇門遁甲Qimen Dunjia (ancient Chinese divination method)
- —甲南大学Konan University