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formylic acid (HCOOH) / formic acid / methanoic acid
party A (in a contract) (cf. 乙方, party B)
thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014
lit. to sleep on one's armor with a spear as a pillow (idiom) / fig. to keep ready for battle at all times
chloroform (trichloromethane CHCl3)
mecha (human-operated robots in Japanese manga)
benzoil peroxide
Serie A, the top division of the Italian football league system
manicure and-or pedicure
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)
methane CH4
xylene
(idiom) to throw away one's helmet and armor while fleeing from defeat
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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
1st rank or top three candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 狀元|状元, 榜眼, and 探花, respectively)
benzoic acid C6H5COOH
formaldehyde (HCHO)
41st year A5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1964 or 2024
armored car / CL: 輛|辆
top three
Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet
nail polish
fingernail
eleventh year A11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1994 or 2054
methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / wood alcohol / wood spirit
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
first rate / top class / excellent
Strait of Malacca
(anatomy) thyroid gland
armor
(idiom) to be the richest person (or family) in a region; to possess great wealth in one's locality
grade A / first-class
hepatitis A
first two of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干
La Liga, the top division of the Spanish football league system
ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today)
metronidazole (antibacterial agent) / Flagyl (trade name)
to remove armor and return to the farm / to return to civilian life
(Tw) bisphenol A (BPA)
alpha globulin / alpha fetoprotein (AFP)
tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones
type A / type I / alpha-
21st year A9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2004 or 2064
oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
softshell turtle
armor / bulletproof vest
chitin
toenail
sixty years
inferior nasal conchae
forward deck (of a boat)
deck (of a boat etc)
the Beatles (1960s UK pop group)
beetle
(anatomy) thyroid cartilage
armor
fingernail
HSK 5
methamidophos (chemistry)
corset / sockpuppet (Internet slang) / vest (dialect)
Curse of the Golden Flower (2007), period drama movie by Zhang Yimou
crustacean
armor
toluene C6H5CH3 / methylbenzene
(anatomy) parathyroid gland
dichloromethane
type A influenza / abbr. for 甲型H1N1流感 / refers to H1N1 influenza of 2009
cresol (chemistry)
to don armor
manicure
nail clipper
paronychia (medicine)
armor / body armor and helmet
(idiom) 60 years old
benzoil peroxide
oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)
(place name)
methamphetamine
crustacean
methicillin (a semisynthetic penicillin) (loanword)
thyroid hormone / thyroxine (used to treat underactive thyroid)
unsuccessful and bloody Korean palace coup in 1884 by Westernisers against conservatives, crushed by Qing troops
Volkswagen Beetle
red waistcoat / (stock market) floor trader; floor broker
armored vehicles
mail plating / armor / armor plating
one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)
insects of the order Coleoptera (i.e. beetles)
Gaojia opera of Fujian and Taiwan
paraben (chemistry)
goiter (enlargement of thyroid gland)
Malacca or Melaka (town and state in Malaysia), also strait between Malaysia and Sumatra
to put down weapon and let soldiers rest (idiom); to relax from fighting
methamphetamine
51st year A3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1974 or 2034
polyformaldehyde (CH2O)n
60 years (of age) / see 花蛤
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
turbinate / nasal concha
armillarisin (fungal enzyme used as antibiotic)

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