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| − | <WL>甲 [jiǎ] (古) helmet; armor; | + | <WL>甲 [jiǎ] (古) acorn (皁 zào); helmet; armor; 龟甲 tortoiseshell (甲骨文); 甲虫 beetle; 指甲 fingernail; (天干) 1st Heavenly Stem; 甲子 Sexagenary Cycle |
| − | The Shuōwén Seal form of 甲(𠇚) jiǎ is said to depict a tree | + | The Shuōwén Seal form of 甲(𠇚) jiǎ ‘sprouting seed/acorn’ (天干) is said to depict a tree seed (acorn, oak nut; as seen in profile) sprouting up in the first lunar month, putting down a 丅() root as at the bottom of 本(), and carrying up with it the 冖(𠘨宀) leathery shell (acorn cap, scaled cupule, with sharp stem/tip above) as it emerges from the soil; and by extension ‘shell; skull (髑髅)’. |
| − | + | Note: 甲 jiǎ ‘sprouting seed/acorn’ is the 1st of the 10 天干 Heavenly Stems (and with the 12 地支) among the oldest Chinese written signs; cf. 天干地支. | |
| − | Compare: 鉀 gé ‘metal arrowhead’; 戎(𢦦) róng ‘weapons/arms’. | + | Compare: 皁/皂 zào ‘acorn’, formerly wr. 𦯑(𦷣草) zào ‘acorn’; 早(𣅼) zǎo ‘early morn’ (the seed/nut as early/beginning of a plant). |
| − | + | Compare: 甲 jiǎ ‘shell’; 龟/龜(⻱𤕣) guī ‘tortoise/turtle’; 龟甲 guījiǎ ‘tortoiseshell (carapace); oracle bone’, 龟板 guībǎn ‘tortoise plastron (belly plate/shell)’ (腹甲). | |
| − | + | Compare: 甲骨文 jiǎgǔwén ‘oracle-bone inscription’ (甲骨: 龟甲和兽骨); 肩胛骨 ‘shoulder blade, scapula’, cf. 胛/𩨹. | |
| − | Compare: | + | Compare: 子(𠯃) zǐ ‘child/offspring; seed’, 1st of the 12 地支. |
| − | HDZ: 甲 : jiǎ : (古) 铠 (象戴甲于首之形): 战士的护身衣, 用皮革或金属制成 (cf. 鉀: 铠甲; 鉀鑪: 箭镞); 兵, 兵士; 某些动物护身的硬壳; 手指和脚趾上的角质层 (指甲); 草木萌芽时的外皮; (甲板, 装甲车); (天干) 第一位; (五行) 木; 序数第一的; 居第一, 冠于; 六十甲子 (年过花甲); (古) 甲科: 进士科 (科举制度取士的科目之一); 等级, 级别; 指称失名的人; 文学作品中虚构的人; (旧) 户口编制单位; (单位); 胛; 夾: 从两个方面来的; 狎 (xiá): 习狎 (亲近, 熟悉), 亲昵; 押 (yā): 签押; (姓) | + | Old graphs (甲金) associated with 甲 look like 十 or 田 (OBI); old 甲 graphs are also assoc. with a 鉀 jiǎ ‘helmet’ sitting upon the 丁/顶 top of the head (HDZ). |
| + | Compare: 鉀 jiǎ ‘armor/helmet’, 鉀 gé ‘metal arrowhead’; 戎(𢦦) róng ‘weapons/arms’. | ||
| + | “[甲] Protecting cover of a seed or bud; scale, armor, cuirass; finger-nails; the 1st of the decimal cycle of time-reckoning characters; (hence:) first; division” —Karlgren(AD). | ||
| + | Compare: 午() wǔ ‘conflict/contradict’ (7th of the 12 地支), similar in shape to 甲(𠇚) in Seal, but with 入() above, and 十() below. | ||
| + | HDZ: 甲 : jiǎ : (古) 铠 (象戴甲于首之形): 战士的护身衣, 用皮革或金属制成 (cf. 鉀: 铠甲; 鉀鑪: 箭镞); 兵, 兵士; 某些动物护身的硬壳; 手指和脚趾上的角质层 (指甲); 草木萌芽时的外皮; (甲板, 装甲车); (天干) 第一位; (五行) 木; 序数第一的 (cf. 呷); 居第一, 冠于; 六十甲子 (年过花甲); (古) 甲科: 进士科 (科举制度取士的科目之一); 等级, 级别; 指称失名的人; 文学作品中虚构的人; (旧) 户口编制单位; (单位); 胛 (cf. 𩨹); 夾: 从两个方面来的; 狎 (xiá): 习狎 (亲近, 熟悉), 亲昵; 押 (yā): 签押; (姓) | ||
| + | HDC: 孟陽 : 农历正月; 春末夏初 | ||
| + | HDC: 孚甲 : fújiǎ : 草木种子分裂发芽; 萌发, 萌生 (孚: 莩, 叶里白皮 (cf. 稃); 甲: 草木初生时所带种子的皮壳) • fūjiǎ : 植物籽实的外皮 | ||
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#y gaap- | #y gaap- | ||
</WL> | </WL> | ||
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