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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
methoxy (chemistry)
formylic acid (HCOOH) / formic acid / methanoic acid
carapace / crust / outer shell / also pr. [jia3 ke2]
insects of the order Coleoptera (i.e. beetles)
the Beatles (1960s UK pop group)
beetle
(anatomy) thyroid gland
beetle
oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
metronidazole (antibacterial agent) / Flagyl (trade name)
methamphetamine
softshell turtle
residence of a noble / top candidate in the imperial examinations
grade A / first-class
First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
a grade A war criminal
(anatomy) parathyroid gland
thyroid hormone / thyroxine (used to treat underactive thyroid)
crustacean
oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)
41st year A5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1964 or 2024
paronychia (medicine)
deck (of a boat etc)
formaldehyde (HCHO)
21st year A9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2004 or 2064
gentian violet
51st year A3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1974 or 2034
(anatomy) thyroid cartilage
party A (in a contract) (cf. 乙方, party B)
cresol (chemistry)
methane CH4
methyl alcohol / methanol CH3OH / wood alcohol / wood spirit
thirty-first year A7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1954 or 2014
methyl group (chemistry)
type A influenza / abbr. for 甲型H1N1流感 / refers to H1N1 influenza of 2009
goiter (enlargement of thyroid gland)
variant of 甲胄
methyl ether CH3OCH3
tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones
armor
methamidophos (chemistry)
hepatitis A
crustacean
chitin
methamphetamine
one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)
hepatitis A
hyperthyroidism / abbr. to 甲亢
(chemistry) methylamine
Volkswagen Beetle
first two of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干
methylene glycol
type A / type I / alpha-
alpha globulin / alpha fetoprotein (AFP)
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
eleventh year A11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1994 or 2054
methicillin (a semisynthetic penicillin) (loanword)
methyalamino group
fenpropathrin (insecticide)
unsuccessful and bloody Korean palace coup in 1884 by Westernisers against conservatives, crushed by Qing troops
methionine (Met), an essential amino acid
pralidoxime mesylate
first rate / top class / excellent
toluene C6H5CH3 / methylbenzene
armor


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