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
- —装甲回収車armored recovery vehicle; armoured recovery vehicle
- —六甲おろしcold northerly winter wind from the Rokko Mountains
- —甲状腺がんthyroid cancer
- —甲信越地方Kōshin'etsu region (including Yamanashi, Nagano and Niigata prefectures); Koshinetsu
- —甲羅を干すto bask in the sun lying flat on one's stomach
- —甲羅を経るto accumulate years of experience; to become proficient
- —べっ甲あんtortoiseshell sauce; thickened sauce of dashi, soy, mirin, etc.
- —装甲巡洋艦armored cruiser
- —甲子園大学Koshien University
- —三甲美術館Sanko Museum
- —甲午農民戦争Donghak Peasant Revolution (Korea; 1894-1895)
- —甲状腺ガゼルgoitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa); black-tailed gazelle; Persian gazelle
- —慢性甲状腺炎chronic thyroiditis; Hashimoto's disease
- —上甲状腺動脈superior thyroid artery
- —輪状甲状靱帯cricothyroid ligament
- —下甲状腺動脈inferior thyroid artery
- —甲南女子大学Konan Women's University
- —装甲人員運搬車armored personnel carrier; armoured personnel carrier
- —甲乙つけがたいdifficult to say which of the two is better; hard to tell which is better; (there is) little to choose between them
- —甲の薬は乙の毒one man's meat is another man's poison; one man's medicine is another man's poison