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  *甲* | 甲* | *甲
first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
HSK 5
fingernail
HSK 5
3rd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination / (hospital ranking) A-grade tertiary (the highest level) (abbr. for 三級甲等|三级甲等)
Malacca or Melaka (town and state in Malaysia), also strait between Malaysia and Sumatra
formylic acid (HCOOH) / formic acid / methanoic acid
armor
toluene C6H5CH3 / methylbenzene
eleventh year A11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1994 or 2054
vehicle armor
(anatomy) thyroid gland
carapace / crust / outer shell / also pr. [jia3 ke2]
nail polish
armor / body armor and helmet
(place name)
beetle
oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
corset / sockpuppet (Internet slang) / vest (dialect)
ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today)
the Beatles (1960s UK pop group)
beetle
2nd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 4th place and up)
mail plating / armor / armor plating
pangolin (Manis pentadactylata) / scaly ant-eater
nail clipper
armored car / CL: 輛|辆
methamphetamine
toenail
softshell turtle
sixty years
nail clipper
benzoic acid C6H5COOH
residence of a noble / top candidate in the imperial examinations
fingernail
grade A / first-class
complete sexagenary cycle / a 60 year-old person / passage of time
to be pregnant (idiom)
manicure
First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
Strait of Malacca
a grade A war criminal
polyformaldehyde (CH2O)n
ironclad / an armor-plated battleship
flight deck
(anatomy) parathyroid gland
turtle shell
thyroid hormone / thyroxine (used to treat underactive thyroid)
crustacean
oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)
scale / plate of armor
Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet
41st year A5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1964 or 2024
paronychia (medicine)
methoxy (chemistry)
deck (of a boat etc)
somebody / certain individual
to remove armor and return to the farm / to return to civilian life
formaldehyde (HCHO)
21st year A9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2004 or 2064
tortoise shell
afterdeck
gentian violet
Gaojia opera of Fujian and Taiwan
51st year A3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1974 or 2034
(anatomy) thyroid cartilage
party A (in a contract) (cf. 乙方, party B)
to don armor
armor
methane CH4
armored car
Nebuchadnezzar
to lay down arms
manicure and-or pedicure
historical communal administrative and self-defence system created during the Song Dynasty and revived during the Republican Era, in which households are grouped in jia and jia are grouped in bao
methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / wood alcohol / wood spirit
thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014
methyl group (chemistry)
breastplate
imperial examinations
toenail
lit. to sleep on one's armor with a spear as a pillow (idiom) / fig. to keep ready for battle at all times
to remove armor / to return to civilian life
goiter (enlargement of thyroid gland)
mecha (human-operated robots in Japanese manga)
to rest weapons and loosen armor (idiom); to relax from fighting
variant of 甲胄
La Liga, the top division of the Spanish football league system
cresol (chemistry)
methyl ether CH3OCH3
tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones
ordinary person A; generic person; some random person
armor
(neologism c. 2013) (coll.) vertical groove visible on either side of the belly in a person with well-toned abs
helmet and armor
weevil / snout beetle
dichloromethane
manicurist; nail artist
sodium benzoate, E211 (a food preservative)
methamidophos (chemistry)
metronidazole (antibacterial agent) / Flagyl (trade name)

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