Meanings

tortoise shell bondage

pteraspids (extinct armoured jawless fishes)

oracle bone script

Gapsin Coup (of Korea; 1884)

chief trader (of the Dutch trading post at Dejima)

sternum

Wood Monkey (21st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1944, 2004, 2064)

Wood Tiger (51st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1914, 1974, 2034)

Wood Horse (31st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1954, 2014, 2074)

Wood Dragon (41st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1964, 2024, 2084)

iron-reinforced warships built by Oda Nobunaga

reliability

being good-for-nothing

worth in speaking (to someone)

value in doing something

nasal concha

promenade deck

arrow with feathers that curve to the left (the first of two arrows to be fired)

carapace

beetles