armoring; armouring; armor; armour
carapace; shell; 1st in rank; grade A; instep; back of hand
armour (e.g. tank); armor
Koshien Stadium, a baseball stadium in Koshien which is the venue of the annual high school baseball tournaments; High school baseball in Japan, the tournaments generally referred to as Kōshien, named after the stadium; Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, a neighborhood of Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan
shell (of crab, tortoise, etc.); carapace; person's back; years of experience
armoured vehicle; armored vehicle
covering for the back of the hand and wrist
armor piercing ammunition; armour piercing ammunition
top of the foot; instep; dorsum of the foot; dorsum pedis
armor; armour; armor plate; armour plate
sternum; breastplate; plastron
difficult to say which of the two is better; hard to tell which is better; (there is) little to choose between them
first and second; A and B; superiority and (or) inferiority; distinction (in quality); discernment
Wood Rat (1st year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)
iron armor (armour); iron helmet
tortoiseshell (of the hawksbill turtle); bekko; tortoiseshell (esp. of the Chinese soft-shelled turtle)
tortoise shell bondage; turtle shell bondage
armored personnel carrier; APC
high-pitched; high in the instep
armored ship; armoured ship
Wood Dragon (41st year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1904, 1964, 2024)
Wood Tiger (51st year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1914, 1974, 2034)
the former and the latter; A and B
(lying on one's belly and) basking in the sun; sunbathing (e.g. on a beach)
hard candy; candy suckers molded on a griddle; (lit.) tortoise-shell candy
iron-reinforced warships built by Oda Nobunaga
A, B, C and D; first, second, third and fourth
Kōshin'etsu region (including Yamanashi, Nagano and Niigata prefectures); Koshinetsu
to bask in the sun lying flat on one's belly
cold northerly winter wind from the Rokko Mountains
Wood Horse (31st year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1954, 2014, 2074)
armored corps; armoured corps
beetles; coleopterans; coleoptera
Wood Monkey (21st year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1944, 2004, 2064)
Wood Dog (11th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1934, 1994, 2054)
Donghak Peasant Revolution (Korea; 1894-1895)
to accumulate years of experience; to become proficient
armored cruiser; armoured cruiser
armor made from small iron plates bound by leather cords (from Kofun to Nara periods)
passing the physical examination as a Grade One conscript (in the former Japanese military)
article of tortoise shell; tortoiseshell work
crab meat mixed with vegetables and egg yolk, steamed inside its shell
Gapsin Coup (of Korea; 1884)
thyroid-stimulating hormone; TSH; thyrotropin; thyrotrophin
one man's meat is another man's poison; (lit.) one man's medicine is another man's poison
to each their own; different strokes for different folks; cut your coat to suit your cloth; (lit.) a crab digs a hole like its own shell
Coleoptera (the order of insects containing beetles)
golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta); cuttlefish (any species in the family Sepiidae)
armored personnel carrier; armoured personnel carrier
armored recovery vehicle; armoured recovery vehicle
chronic thyroiditis; Hashimoto's disease
parathyroid hormone; parathormone
nasal concha; turbinate bone
pteraspids (extinct armoured jawless fishes)
tortoiseshell sauce; thickened sauce of dashi, soy, mirin, etc.
armor plate; armour plate
top board (of a table, counter, etc.); surface
armored warrior; armoured warrior
goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa); black-tailed gazelle; Persian gazelle
Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla)
first division of the night (approx. 7pm to 9pm)
weapons and armour; soldier; battle; war