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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
lit. to sleep on one's armor with a spear as a pillow (idiom) / fig. to keep ready for battle at all times
mecha (human-operated robots in Japanese manga)
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)
(idiom) to throw away one's helmet and armor while fleeing from defeat
1st rank or top three candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 狀元|状元, 榜眼, and 探花, respectively)
top three
Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet
armor
La Liga, the top division of the Spanish football league system
ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today)
armor / bulletproof vest
toenail
inferior nasal conchae
corset / sockpuppet (Internet slang) / vest (dialect)
Curse of the Golden Flower (2007), period drama movie by Zhang Yimou
to don armor
manicure
armor / body armor and helmet
(place name)
red waistcoat / (stock market) floor trader; floor broker
mail plating / armor / armor plating
Malacca or Melaka (town and state in Malaysia), also strait between Malaysia and Sumatra
60 years (of age) / see 花蛤
ordinary person A; generic person; some random person
oracle tortoise shell
weevil / snout beetle
tortoise shell
to rest weapons and loosen armor (idiom); to relax from fighting
vehicle armor
toenail
pangolin (Manis pentadactylata) / scaly ant-eater
to lay down arms
weapons and armor
to be pregnant (idiom)
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
imperial examinations
thumbnail
pangolin (Manis pentadactylata) / scaly ant-eater
2nd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 4th place and up)
breastplate
to remove armor / to return to civilian life
armor
turtle shell
helmet and armor
somebody / certain individual
scale / plate of armor


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