甲
jiǎjià HSK5

1st heavenly stem, fingernail

甲 jiǎ frequency
nail noun
(bound form) The hard keratin covering at the end of a finger or toe
shell noun
(bound form) A protective hard outer covering of an animal, such as a carapace or scales; also refers to armor plating on vehicles or equipment
armor noun
(bound form) Body armor or a protective vest made of leather or metal plates worn by soldiers in ancient times
first
First of the ten Heavenly Stems; used to indicate the first position in a sequence or rank, often equivalent to "A" or "I" in English lists; ancient Chinese compass point (75°)
to excel
To rank first; to be the best or to surpass others
someone
A pronoun used for an unspecified person or thing; equivalent to "Person A" or "Mr. So-and-so"
[administrative unit]
A historical civil administration unit in the 保甲 bǎo​jiǎ system, consisting of several households
[land area]
(Taiwan) A unit of land area equivalent to approximately 0.97 hectares or 2,934 ping
surname
a Chinese surname
soldiers
(literary) soldiers; troops in armor
甲 jià
soft-shell turtle
(bound form) A soft-shell turtle or amyda, more commonly known as 鳖 biē

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,106th most common 132.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,371st most common 53.1 per million appears in 19% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
12.9 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
89.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+7532

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)