卜甲
bǔ jiǎ
Pinyin

Definition

卜甲
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bǔ jiǎ
  1. oracle tortoise shell

Related Words (20)

指甲
zhǐ jia
  1. 1 fingernail
甲
jiǎ
  1. 1 first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shí tiān gān]
  2. 2 (used for an unspecified person or thing)
  3. 3 first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc)
  4. 4 letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc
  5. 5 armor plating
  6. 6 shell or carapace
  7. 7 (of the fingers or toes) nail
  8. 8 bladed leather or metal armor (old)
  9. 9 ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old)
  10. 10 civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bǎo jiǎ] system (old)
  11. 11 ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
胡萝卜
hú luó bo
  1. 1 carrot
萝卜
luó bo
  1. 1 radish (Raphanus sativus), esp. white radish 白蘿蔔|白萝卜[bái luó bo]
  2. 2 CL:條|条[tiáo]
卜
Bǔ
  1. 1 surname Bu
占卜
zhān bǔ
  1. 1 to divine
意甲
Yì Jiǎ
  1. 1 Serie A, the top division of the Italian football league system
指甲油
zhǐ jia yóu
  1. 1 nail polish
甲乙
jiǎ yǐ
  1. 1 first two of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shí tiān gān]
甲亢
jiǎ kàng
  1. 1 hyperthyroidism
  2. 2 abbr. for 甲狀腺功能亢進|甲状腺功能亢进[jiǎ zhuàng xiàn gōng néng kàng jìn]
甲子
jiǎ zǐ
  1. 1 first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干[tiān gān] and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支[dì zhī])
  2. 2 the sixty-year cycle
甲方
jiǎ fāng
  1. 1 first party (law)
  2. 2 see also 乙方[yǐ fāng]
甲板
jiǎ bǎn
  1. 1 deck (of a boat etc)
甲状腺
jiǎ zhuàng xiàn
  1. 1 thyroid gland
甲醛
jiǎ quán
  1. 1 formaldehyde (HCHO)
甲骨文
jiǎ gǔ wén
  1. 1 oracle script
  2. 2 oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
盔甲
kuī jiǎ
  1. 1 armor
  2. 2 body armor and helmet
美甲
měi jiǎ
  1. 1 manicure and-or pedicure
胡萝卜素
hú luó bo sù
  1. 1 carotene
花甲
huā jiǎ
  1. 1 complete sexagenary cycle
  2. 2 a 60 year-old person
  3. 3 passage of time

Idioms (7)

一个萝卜一个坑
yī gè luó bo yī gè kēng
  1. 1 lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. each person has his own position
  3. 3 each to his own
  4. 4 horses for courses
  5. 5 every kettle has its lid
枕戈寝甲
zhěn gē qǐn jiǎ
  1. 1 to sleep on one's armor with a spear as a pillow (idiom)
  2. 2 to keep ready for battle at all times
案兵束甲
àn bīng shù jiǎ
  1. 1 to rest weapons and loosen armor (idiom); to relax from fighting
案甲休兵
àn jiǎ xiū bīng
  1. 1 to put down weapon and let soldiers rest (idiom); to relax from fighting
甲之蜜糖，乙之砒霜
jiǎ zhī mì táng , yǐ zhī pī shuāng
  1. 1 one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)
萝卜白菜，各有所爱
luó bo bái cài , gè yǒu suǒ ài
  1. 1 one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)
  2. 2 to each his own
身怀六甲
shēn huái liù jiǎ
  1. 1 to be pregnant (idiom)

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