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
- —龜の甲tortoise shell; hexagon pattern; hexagon shape; benzene ring; benzene-ring structure; tortoise shell (shape)
- —甲イカgolden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta); cuttlefish (any species in the family Sepiidae)
- —手っ甲covering for the back of the hand and wrist
- —甲羅蒸crab meat mixed with vegetables and egg yolk, steamed inside its shell
- —六甲颪cold northerly winter wind from the Rokko Mountains
- —鼈甲飴hard candy; candy suckers molded on a griddle; tortoise-shell candy
- —鼈甲餡tortoiseshell sauce; thickened sauce of dashi, soy, mirin, etc.
- —甲状せんthyroid (gland)
- —烏賊の甲cuttlebone
- —甲状腺癌thyroid cancer
- —べっ甲餡tortoiseshell sauce; thickened sauce of dashi, soy, mirin, etc.
- —鼈甲あんtortoiseshell sauce; thickened sauce of dashi, soy, mirin, etc.
- —産近甲竜Kyoto Sangyo University, Kindai University, Konan University and Ryukoku University (group of similarly ranked private universities in the Kansai region)
- —甲州みそKōshū miso; traditional miso of Yamanashi Prefecture fermented using both rice and barley kōji
- —六甲下ろしcold northerly winter wind from the Rokko Mountains
- —甲州ブドウKōshū (grape variety)
- —甲乙付け難いdifficult to say which of the two is better; hard to tell which is better; (there is) little to choose between them
- —甲状せんしゅgoiter; goitre
- —甲乙付けがたいdifficult to say which of the two is better; hard to tell which is better; (there is) little to choose between them
- —亀の甲より年の劫the older, the wiser