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甲 — shell, armor, first (of 10 calendar signs)

こう甲 shell

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 5 strokes

U+7532 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1073 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1102 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

shell
armor
first (of 10 calendar signs)

word

こう kou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

甲(こう) kou first 甲(こう) 子(し) 園(えん) koushien Koshien (stadium)

Appears in idioms

亀の甲より年の功諺

Years of experience are worth more than a turtle's shell

Stroke order

1
2
3
4
5

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

た田 rice field #102

ひ日 sun #72

丨 pole

じゅう十 ten #24

いち一 one #1

Used as component in (4)

か果 fruit たん単 simple おす押 push みさき岬 headland

Pictographic (象形). A vertical stroke (丨) through a field-like frame (田). Originally depicted a turtle shell or armor. Shell, first (in a series).

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#102 田 rice paddy