noun:

• tartan (i.e. plaid pattern or fabric) - From English "tartan check"

noun / ~の noun:

• leopard (horse coat pattern)

noun:

• head and shoulders (stock price, etc. chart pattern)

noun:

• Newton's rings (interference pattern seen when a convex lens is placed on another surface)

noun:

• color bars (television test pattern); colour bars

noun:

• Aran (sweater pattern)

noun:

• form of poetry found on the stone Buddha Foot monument at Yakushi Temple in Nara (following a 5-7-5-7-7-7 moraic pattern)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to insert (an illustration); to stencil (a pattern); to print on; to instill (thought, impression, etc.); to imprint (e.g. on one's subconscious) ➜ 刷り込み

~の noun / noun:

• speckled with white; salt-and-pepper (pattern, fabric, etc.)

noun:

• marbling (of beef) ➜ 霜降り肉
• (of fish, chicken, shellfish, etc.) blanching by exposure to boiling and then icy water - abbreviation ➜ 霜降り作り
• formation of frost - orig. meaning

noun:

• Hojo clan symbol; Hojo family crest (three triangles in a triangular pattern)

noun:

• Milk Dipper; southern dipper asterism (star pattern) within Sagittarius

noun:

• figure; design
• twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes ［綾］
• style (of writing); figure (of speech)
• design; plot; plan
• minor market fluctuation; technical correction
• cat's cradle - abbreviation ➜ 綾取り【あやとり】
• lease rod (in a loom) - abbreviation ➜ 綾竹

noun:

• strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; maelstrom - from 鳴門海峡
• kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門巻き
• cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern - Food term
• Naruto; city in NE Tokushima pref ［鳴門］
• Naruto Strait ［鳴門］ - from 鳴門海峡 - abbreviation
• Naruto wakame ［鳴門］ - abbreviation ➜ 鳴門若布【なるとわかめ】

noun:

• blade; sword
• forged blade; wavy pattern on forged blades ➜ 刃文【はもん】
• sharpness
• unhulled rice - obscure term ➜ 籾

noun:

• sandy beach; sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form
• designs and objects with a wavy pattern
• sweet mochi cake ➜ 素甘【すあま】

noun:

• well curb consisting of wooden beams crossed at the ends
• pattern resembling the symbol #; parallel crosses
• number sign; hash ➜ 番号記号

prefix:

• small; little; fine

noun:

• fine pattern ［ささら］ - archaism ➜ 細形
• pebble ［さざれ］ - abbreviation ➜ 細石

noun:

• Amitabha (Buddha); Amida - Buddhism term
• ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner - abbreviation ➜ 阿弥陀籤【あみだくじ】
• wearing a hat pushed back on one's head - abbreviation ➜ 阿弥陀被り【あみだかぶり】

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to print
• to color or pattern fabric using a wooden mold

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• small build; small stature; petite Antonym: 大柄【おおがら】
• small pattern Antonym: 大柄【おおがら】

adjectival noun / noun:

• large build Antonym: 小柄【こがら】

~の noun / noun / adjectival noun:

• large pattern Antonym: 小柄【こがら】

noun:

• Jōmon period - abbreviation ➜ 縄文時代【じょうもんじだい】
• straw-rope pattern

noun:

• ocean; large sea
• fabric pattern ［おおうみ］

noun:

• ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow)
• staining a pattern on fabric or paper by rubbing it with indigo leaves

noun:

• ridges on a blade (sword, knife, etc.)
• ridged pattern in building