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JIA3 means "shell", "armour", "fingernail", or "first class" (because it is the first heavenly stem). It also appears in words referring to shields, beetles, crustaceans, methane, methanol. In ancient China, seers looked for omens by burning shells and studying the cracks that appeared. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone

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