| | 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 |
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| | fingernail | HSK 5 |
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| | Serie A, the top division of the Italian football league system | |
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| | La Liga, the top division of the Spanish football league system | |
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| | grade A / first-class | |
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| | formylic acid (HCOOH) / formic acid / methanoic acid | |
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| | thyroid gland | |
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| | corset / sockpuppet (Internet slang) / vest (dialect) | |
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| | formaldehyde (HCHO) | |
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| | mail plating / armor / armor plating | |
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| | manicure and-or pedicure | |
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| | methyl group (chemistry) | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | toluene C6H5CH3 / methylbenzene | |
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| | methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / wood alcohol / wood spirit | |
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| | armor | |
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| | vehicle armor | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script) | |
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| | methane CH4 | |
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| | armor / body armor and helmet | |
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| | beetle | |
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| | first party (law) / see also 乙方 | |
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| | dichloromethane | |
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| | pangolin (Manis pentadactylata) / scaly ant-eater | |
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| | carapace / crust / outer shell / also pr. [jia3 ke2] | |
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| | metronidazole (antibacterial agent) / Flagyl (trade name) | |
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| | the Beatles (1960s UK pop group) | |
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| | beetle | |
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| | type A / type I / alpha- | |
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| | hepatitis A | |
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| | imperial examinations | |
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| | tortoise shell | |
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| | to remove armor / to return to civilian life | |
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| | tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones | |
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| | Malacca or Melaka (town and state in Malaysia), also strait between Malaysia and Sumatra | |
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| | cresol (chemistry) | |
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| | 41st year A5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1964 or 2024 | |
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| | first rate / top class / excellent | |
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| | turtle / terrapin / Taiwan pr. [jia4 yu2] | |
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| | somebody / certain individual | |
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| | 51st year A3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1974 or 2034 | |
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| | methyl ether CH3OCH3 | |
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| | thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014 | |
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| | 21st year A9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2004 or 2064 | |
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| | breastplate | |
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| | parathyroid | |
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| | armor / bulletproof vest | |
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| | eleventh year A11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1994 or 2054 | |
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| | to don armor | |
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| | scale / plate of armor | |
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| | (place name) | |
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| | 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 甲 and jia are grouped in bao 保 | |
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| | deck (of a boat etc) | |
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| | methamidophos (chemistry) | |
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| | toenail | |
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| | to remove armor and return to the farm / to return to civilian life | |
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| | benzoil peroxide | |
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| | Hsuehchia town in Tainan county 台南縣|台南县, Taiwan | |
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| | 1st rank or top three candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 狀元|状元, 榜眼, and 探花, respectively) | |
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| | mecha (human-operated robots in Japanese manga) | |
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| | first two of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 | |
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| | Dajia or Tachia Town in Taichung County 臺中縣|台中县, Taiwan | |
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| | turtle shell | |
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| | methoxy (chemistry) | |
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| | phthalate (chemistry) | |
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| | paronychia (medicine) | |
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| | Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet | |
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| | complete sexagenary cycle / a 60 year-old person / passage of time | |
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| | to lay down arms | |
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| | carbocysteine | |
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| | helmet and armor | |
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| | 2nd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 4th place and up) | |
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| | thyroid (gland) | |
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| | nail clipper | |
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| | benzoic acid C6H5COOH | |
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| | nail clipper | |
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| | benzaldehyde C6H5CHO, the simplest aromatic aldehyde | |
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| | First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) | |
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| | methamphetamine | |
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| | oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script) | |
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| | polyformaldehyde (CH2O)n | |
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| | dimethylarsenic acid (CH3)2AsO2H / cacodylic acid | |
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| | ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today) | |
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| | nail polish remover | |
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| | ordinary person A; generic person; some random person | |
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| | ironclad / an armor-plated battleship | |
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| | turbinate / nasal concha | |
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| | sixty years | |
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| | chloroform (trichloromethane CHCl3) | |
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| | trinitrotoluene (TNT) | |
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| | inferior nasal conchae | |
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| | dimethylarsenic acid (CH3)2AsO2H / cacodylic acid | |
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| | xylene | |
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| | armillarisin (fungal enzyme used as antibiotic) | |
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| | manicure | |
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| | top three | |
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| | forward deck (of a boat) | |
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