跤甲

Chinese

		bones of leg; wrestle	1st heavenly stem; armour; shell
simp. and trad. (跤甲)		跤	甲
alternative forms		腳甲／脚甲 骹甲

Pronunciation

• Northern Min (KCR): káu-kă
• Eastern Min (BUC): kă-gák
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kha-kah

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• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: káu-kă
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰau⁵⁴ kʰa²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: kă-gák
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰa⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ^(k-)ɑʔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Jinjiang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kha-kah
    • Tâi-lô: kha-kah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qa'kaq
    • IPA (Jinjiang): /kʰa³³ kaʔ⁵/

Noun

跤甲

1. (Northern Min, Eastern Min, Jinjiang Hokkien) toenail

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 腳趾甲 (“toenail”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		腳趾甲, 趾甲
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	腳趾蓋兒
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	腳趾甲
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	腳趾蓋兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	腳趾甲
	Xi'an	腳趾甲
	Xining	腳趾甲
	Xuzhou	腳趾蓋兒, 腳趾蓋子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	腳趾甲
	Ürümqi	腳趾甲
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	腳趾甲, 腳趾甲兒
	Wuhan	腳趾甲殼, 腳趾甲篷
	Guiyang	腳趾甲殼, 腳趾甲
	Liuzhou	腳趾甲
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	腳趾甲
	Yangzhou	腳指掐
Cantonese	Guangzhou	腳甲
	Hong Kong	腳甲
	Taishan	腳甲
	Dongguan	腳趾甲
Gan	Nanchang	腳趾甲
	Lichuan	腳趾甲
	Pingxiang	腳趾甲
Hakka	Meixian	腳趾甲
	Yudu	腳趾甲
Huizhou	Jixi	腳趾甲
Jin	Taiyuan	腳趾甲
	Xinzhou	腳趾甲
Northern Min	Jian'ou	跤甲
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	跤掌甲, 跤甲
Southern Min	Xiamen	跤掌甲
	Quanzhou	跤掌甲
	Jinjiang	跤甲
	Yongchun	跤掌甲
	Zhangzhou	跤掌甲
	Tainan	跤掌甲 GT
	Haikou	腳甲
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	腳趾甲, 腳甲
Wu	Shanghai	腳節掐, 腳指掐
	Shanghai (Chongming)	腳指掐
	Suzhou	腳節掐
	Danyang	腳指掐
	Hangzhou	腳指掐兒
	Ningbo	腳甲掐
	Jinhua	腳趾甲
Xiang	Changsha	腳趾甲
	Loudi	腳趾甲
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)