armor; body armor and helmet

vehicle armor

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°

corset; sockpuppet (Internet slang); vest (dialect)

manicure

armor

manicure and-or pedicure

mecha (human-operated robots in Japanese manga)

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)

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])

2nd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 4th place and up)

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]

(place name)

oracle tortoise shell

Serie A, the top division of the Italian football league system

weapons and armor

armor; bulletproof vest

to don armor

somebody; certain individual

imperial examinations

helmet and armor

breastplate

60 years (of age); see 花蛤[hua1 ge2]

armor

La Liga, the top division of the Spanish football league system

to remove armor; to return to civilian life

weevil; snout beetle

toenail

mail plating; armor; armor plating

stag beetle

turtle shell

scale; plate of armor

tortoise shell

inferior nasal conchae

Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet

top three

thumbnail

pangolin (Manis pentadactylata); scaly ant-eater

red waistcoat; (stock market) floor trader; floor broker

toenail

ordinary person A; generic person; some random person

Malacca or Melaka (town and state in Malaysia), also strait between Malaysia and Sumatra

pangolin (Manis pentadactylata); scaly ant-eater

(idiom) to throw away one's helmet and armor while fleeing from defeat

to lay down arms

Qimen Dunjia, an ancient system of occult arts used for divination and strategic planning

lit. to sleep on one's armor with a spear as a pillow (idiom); fig. to keep ready for battle at all times

to rest weapons and loosen armor (idiom); to relax from fighting

to be pregnant (idiom)