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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
2nd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 4th place and up)
formylic acid (HCOOH) / formic acid / methanoic acid
methyl group (chemistry)
(anatomy) thyroid gland
inferior nasal conchae
methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / wood alcohol / wood spirit
toluene C6H5CH3 / methylbenzene
corset / sockpuppet (Internet slang) / vest (dialect)
vehicle armor
manicure and-or pedicure
oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
armor / body armor and helmet
beetle
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)
party A (in a contract) (cf. 乙方, party B)
mail plating / armor / armor plating
softshell turtle
grade A / first-class
carapace / crust / outer shell / also pr. [jia3 ke2]
(place name)
hepatitis A
metronidazole (antibacterial agent) / Flagyl (trade name)
armor
cresol (chemistry)
pangolin (Manis pentadactylata) / scaly ant-eater
formaldehyde (HCHO)
41st year A5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1964 or 2024
first rate / top class / excellent
51st year A3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1974 or 2034
tortoise shell
(anatomy) thyroid cartilage
La Liga, the top division of the Spanish football league system
Malacca or Melaka (town and state in Malaysia), also strait between Malaysia and Sumatra
21st year A9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2004 or 2064
thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014
methane CH4
Serie A, the top division of the Italian football league system
breastplate
armor
type A / type I / alpha-
first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干 and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支) / the sixty-year cycle
armor / bulletproof vest
dichloromethane
to don armor
scale / plate of armor
deck (of a boat etc)
methyl ether CH3OCH3
tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones
complete sexagenary cycle / a 60 year-old person / passage of time
eleventh year A11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1994 or 2054
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
methamidophos (chemistry)
toenail
(anatomy) parathyroid gland
benzoil peroxide
the Beatles (1960s UK pop group)
beetle
to be pregnant (idiom)
1st rank or top three candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 狀元|状元, 榜眼, and 探花, respectively)
imperial examinations
to remove armor / to return to civilian life
first two of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干
ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today)
trinitrotoluene (TNT)
residence of a noble / top candidate in the imperial examinations
nail polish
manicure
benzoic acid C6H5COOH
hyperthyroidism / abbr. to 甲亢
methamphetamine
turtle shell
(neologism c. 2013) (coll.) vertical groove visible on either side of the belly in a person with well-toned abs
First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
nail clipper
chloroform (trichloromethane CHCl3)
variant of 甲胄
Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet
helmet and armor
sodium benzoate, E211 (a food preservative)
type A influenza / abbr. for 甲型H1N1流感 / refers to H1N1 influenza of 2009
paronychia (medicine)
armor
red waistcoat / (stock market) floor trader; floor broker
manicurist; nail artist
polyformaldehyde (CH2O)n
methionine (Met), an essential amino acid
Nebuchadnezzar
phthalate (chemistry)
benzoil chloride C6H5COCl
Strait of Malacca
benzaldehyde C6H5CHO, the simplest aromatic aldehyde
crustacean
goiter (enlargement of thyroid gland)
armored vehicles
one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)
(chemistry) methylamine
turbinate / nasal concha

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