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岬

jiǎ

Character

What 岬 means

1. cape (geography)
2. headland

Words starting with 岬

• 岬角jiǎ jiǎocape; headland; promontory

Words containing 岬

• 地岬dì jiǎcape (geography); headland
• 海岬hǎi jiǎheadland

Characters built on 甲

These share the phonetic component 甲 (jiǎ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 钾jiǎpotassium (chemistry)
• 匣xiábox
• 胛jiǎshoulder blade
• 狎xiá(bound form; literary) to take liberties with sb or sth; to treat frivolously
• 柙xiácage; pen; scabbard

Characters that look like 岬

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 怖bùterror; terrified; afraid
• 押yāto mortgage; to pawn; to detain in custody
• 坪pínga plain; ping, unit of area equal to approx. 3.3058 square meters…
• 坤kūnone of the Eight Trigrams 八卦; female principle; ☷
• 抨pēngattack; impeach
• 坷kēused in 坷垃

Sounds the same

Read jiǎ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 假fake; false; artificial
• 甲first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; (used for an unspecified person or thing)…
• 钾potassium (chemistry)
• 胛shoulder blade
• 榎(evergreen shrub); Celtis sinensis
• 斝small jade cup with ears
• 槚Catalpa, a genus of mostly deciduous trees; old term for Camellia sinensis, the tea plant…
• 婽good
• 椵(grapefruit)
• 瘕obstruction in the intestine
• 嘏far; grand
• 贾surname Jia