Character Contained In References Comments
 Simplified  Traditional  Ancient forms  Archaic forms
   traditional formhandwritten form

Variants

Phonetic

Semantic

Apparent
Mandarin
jia3, jia4
English
Definitions
1st heavenly stem; armor; 1st in order; A; A in a sequence of examples involving A; B; C; etc.); fingernails; the first heavenly stem; shell
Etymology
Notes
Pictograph: armor; perhaps initially related to (compare ); this character was changed from its original form (identical to ) to look like part of