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- first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]
- (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[bao3 jia3] system (old)
- ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
- 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[san1 ji2 jia3 deng3])
- hyperthyroidism
- abbr. for 甲狀腺功能亢進|甲状腺功能亢进[jia3 zhuang4 xian4 gong1 neng2 kang4 jin4]
- first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1] and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1])
- the sixty-year cycle
- 2nd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 4th place and up)
- tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones
- 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[jia3] and jia are grouped in bao 保[bao3]
- 1st rank or top three candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2], 榜眼[bang3 yan3], and 探花[tan4 hua1], respectively)
Trad. 馬甲線
- (neologism c. 2013) (coll.) vertical groove visible on either side of the belly in a person with well-toned abs
- Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet
Trad. 紅馬甲
- red waistcoat
- (stock market) floor trader; floor broker
Trad. 龜甲萬
- Kikkoman, Japanese brand of soy sauce, food seasonings etc
Trad. 馬六甲
- Malacca or Melaka (town and state in Malaysia), also strait between Malaysia and Sumatra
- oracle script
- oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
Trad. 奇門遁甲
- ancient Chinese divination tradition (still in use today)
Trad. 龜甲寶螺
- Mauritius cowry
- Mauritia mauritiana
Trad. 苯甲酸鈉
- sodium benzoate, E211 (a food preservative)
Trad. 枕戈寢甲
- lit. to sleep on one's armor with a spear as a pillow (idiom)
- fig. to keep ready for battle at all times
Trad. 丟盔棄甲
- (idiom) to throw away one's helmet and armor while fleeing from defeat
- to rest weapons and loosen armor (idiom); to relax from fighting
- to put down weapon and let soldiers rest (idiom); to relax from fighting
Trad. 甲午戰爭
- First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
Trad. 甲殼蟲類
- insects of the order Coleoptera (i.e. beetles)
- methicillin (a semisynthetic penicillin) (loanword)
Trad. 解甲歸田
- to remove armor and return to the farm
- to return to civilian life
- (idiom) to be the richest person (or family) in a region; to possess great wealth in one's locality
Trad. 甲狀腺素
- thyroid hormone
- thyroxine (used to treat underactive thyroid)
Trad. 甲狀腺腫
- goiter (enlargement of thyroid gland)
Trad. 甲申政變
- unsuccessful and bloody Korean palace coup in 1884 by Westernisers against conservatives, crushed by Qing troops
- oracle script
- oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)
- armillarisin (fungal enzyme used as antibiotic)
Trad. 副甲狀腺素
- parathyroid hormone (Tw)
- boat deck (deck where lifeboats are stored)
Trad. 馬六甲海峽
- Strait of Malacca
- alpha globulin
- alpha fetoprotein (AFP)
- dimethylarsenic acid (CH3)2AsO2H
- cacodylic acid
- dimethylarsenic acid (CH3)2AsO2H
- cacodylic acid
Trad. 過氧化苯甲酰
- benzoil peroxide
- methamphetamine
Trad. 鄰苯二甲酸酯
- phthalate (chemistry)
Trad. 甲狀腺功能亢進
- hyperthyroidism
- abbr. to 甲亢[jia3 kang4]
Trad. 對羥基苯甲酸酯
- paraben (chemistry)
Trad. 滿城盡帶黃金甲
- Curse of the Golden Flower (2007), period drama movie by Zhang Yimou
- one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)
Trad. 氨基甲酸酯類化合物
- carbamate
- methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)