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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)
inferior nasal conchae
corset / sockpuppet (Internet slang) / vest (dialect)
vehicle armor
manicure and-or pedicure
armor / body armor and helmet
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)
mail plating / armor / armor plating
(place name)
armor
pangolin (Manis pentadactylata) / scaly ant-eater
tortoise shell
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
toenail
Serie A, the top division of the Italian football league system
breastplate
armor / bulletproof vest
to don armor
scale / plate of armor
complete sexagenary cycle / a 60 year-old person / passage of time
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
toenail
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
ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today)
manicure
turtle shell
Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet
helmet and armor
armor
red waistcoat / (stock market) floor trader; floor broker
thumbnail
mecha (human-operated robots in Japanese manga)
oracle tortoise shell
top three
to lay down arms
weapons and armor
lit. to sleep on one's armor with a spear as a pillow (idiom) / fig. to keep ready for battle at all times
somebody / certain individual
to rest weapons and loosen armor (idiom); to relax from fighting
Curse of the Golden Flower (2007), period drama movie by Zhang Yimou
weevil / snout beetle
ordinary person A; generic person; some random person
pangolin (Manis pentadactylata) / scaly ant-eater


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