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指甲

zhǐ jia

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

指甲 (zhǐ jia) means "fingernail". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 指甲 means

1. fingernail

The characters in 指甲

• 指zhǐfinger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to
• 甲jiǎfirst of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; (used for an unspecified person or thing)…

Example sentences

• 我的指甲断了。
  I broke a nail.
• 不要再咬指甲了。
  Bù yào zài yǎo zhǐjia le.
  Stop biting your nails.
• 她有咬指甲的习惯。
  Tā yǒu yǎo zhǐjia de xíguàn.
  She has a habit of biting her nails.
• 咬指甲是个坏习惯。
  Biting your fingernails is a bad habit.
• 齐里用指甲剥枇杷。
  Ziri uses his fingernail to peel loquats.
• 玛丽亚在打磨她的指甲。
  Mary is filing her nails.

Words starting with 指甲

• 指甲油zhǐ jia yóunail polish
• 指甲刀zhǐ jia dāonail clipper
• 指甲盖zhǐ jia gàifingernail
• 指甲剪zhǐ jia jiǎnnail clipper
• 指甲钳zhǐ jia qiánnail clipper

Words containing 指甲

• 修指甲xiū zhǐ jiamanicure
• 脚指甲jiǎo zhǐ jiatoenail
• 拇指甲mǔ zhǐ jiathumbnail

Where 指甲 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhǐ jia correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.