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甲jiǎ之zhī蜜mì糖táng,,乙yǐ之zhī砒pī霜shuāng
  1. one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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甲
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

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°

Pinyin
jiǎ
Strokes
5
Frequency
24738 of 2500
Words starting with 甲Words ending in 甲Anywhere in a word
之
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]), him, her, it

Pinyin
zhī
Strokes
3
Frequency
475 of 2500
Words starting with 之Words ending in 之Anywhere in a word
蜜
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

honey

Pinyin
mì
Strokes
14
Frequency
26098 of 2500
Words starting with 蜜Words ending in 蜜Anywhere in a word
糖
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

sugar, sweets, candy, CL:顆|颗[ke1],塊|块[kuai4]

Pinyin
táng
Strokes
16
Frequency
2917 of 2500
Words starting with 糖Words ending in 糖Anywhere in a word
乙
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1], second in order, letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc, second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方[yi3 fang1], as opposed to 甲方[jia3 fang1]), ethyl, bent, winding, radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5), ancient Chinese compass point: 105°

Pinyin
yǐ
Strokes
1
Frequency
28488 of 2500
Words starting with 乙Words ending in 乙Anywhere in a word
砒
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

arsenic

Pinyin
pī
Strokes
9
Words starting with 砒Words ending in 砒Anywhere in a word
霜
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

frost, white powder or cream spread over a surface, frosting, (skin) cream

Pinyin
shuāng
Strokes
17
Frequency
22034 of 2500
Words starting with 霜Words ending in 霜Anywhere in a word