# 指甲 (zhǐjia)

In Mandarin Chinese, 指甲 (zhǐjia) means “fingernail”. It is part of the HSK 5 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: fingernail
- Pinyin: zhǐjia (zhi3 jia5)
- HSK 3.0 · Level 5
- HSK 2.0 · Level 6

## Examples

- 小孩要经常剪指甲。
  Xiǎohái yào jīngcháng jiǎn zhǐjia.
  Children should trim their fingernails often.

## Characters

- [指](https://hanziro.com/word/zhi-finger/) (zhǐ): finger; to point at
- [甲](https://hanziro.com/word/jia-first-in-list/) (jiǎ): (label) first in a list (A)

https://hanziro.com/word/zhi-jia-fingernail/

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