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甲

Unicode: U+7532

Pinyin: jiǎ

Definition

* 天干的第一位，用于作顺序第一的代称。 ～子。花～（六十岁的人）。 * 居于首位的，超过所有其它的。 ～等。 * 古代科举考试成绩名次的分类。 一～（名为"进士及第"）；二～（名为"进士出身"）；三～（名为"同进士出身"）。 * 古代军人打仗穿的护身衣服，用皮革或金属叶片制成。 盔～。～兵。～士。 * 现代用金属做成有保护功能的装备。 ～板。装～车。 * 某些动物身上有保护功能的硬壳。 龟～。 * 手指或脚趾上的角质硬壳。 指～。 * 旧时户口编制单位。 保～。～长。 * 植物果实的外壳。 ～坼（外表裂开）。 * 同"胛"，肩胛

armor, shell; fingernails; 1st heavenly stem

Structure

甲 graph

Related substructures

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Precursors

Oracle Bone Script
c. 1300–1050 BCE (Late Shang)
Inscriptions carved on turtle plastrons and animal bones for divination and record-keeping in the late Shang royal court; the oldest large attested corpus of written Chinese.Wikipedia ->
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Bronze Inscriptions
c. 1200–221 BCE (Shang–Zhou; continues into the Warring States)
Inscriptions cast or engraved on ritual bronzes, especially prominent from the Western Zhou onward; a major source for early political, ritual, and social history.Wikipedia ->
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Chu Script
c. 770–221 BCE (Chu, Spring & Autumn–Warring States)
A regional script tradition used in the state of Chu, best known from brush-written bamboo and silk manuscripts with distinctive local forms.Wikipedia ->
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Qin Script
c. 475–206 BCE (Qin, Warring States → Qin dynasty)
Qin-area character forms attested on bamboo/wood slips (e.g., Shuihudi, deposited 217 BCE), overlapping chronologically with the standardization of seal script and the emergence of clerical tendencies.Wikipedia ->
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Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
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Clerical Script
c. 300 BCE–220 CE (emerged late Warring States/Qin; dominant Han)
A practical script that evolved from late Warring States/Qin writing; it matured and became dominant in the Han dynasty, favoring faster, more rectilinear strokes.Wikipedia ->
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Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
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