noun:

• mouth shaped like a kana "he" character; mouth turned down at the corners ➜ への字に結んだ口

noun:

• luminous body like a shooting star
• any bright metal
• sliced fish with the silver skin left on (iwashi, aji, sayori, sanma, kohada, etc.)

noun:

• arcade game where UFO-like cranes capture stuffed animals, etc. - From English "UFO catcher" ➜ クレーンゲーム

noun / ~する noun:

• treating like a stranger

noun:

• clave-like folk instrument; two bamboo pieces beaten together

noun:

• pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure ➜ 島田【しまだ】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to sleep like a log; to sleep like a baby - colloquialism ➜ 泥のように眠る

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• drinking like a fish and eat like a horse; eating mountains of food and drink oceans of liquor - four character idiom

noun:

• underhanded or Machiavelli-like person

noun:

• shawm-like instrument played by street vendors (sometimes referred to as a flute) - From Portuguese "charamela" ➜ 哨吶【さない】

noun / ~の noun:

• (person) seeming like a genius; (having) the temperament of a prodigy

expression / noun:

• mouth shaped like a kana "he" character; mouth turned down at the corners

expression:

• no time like the present; make hay while the sun shines; it's the auspicious day when you've just thought of it [literal] - proverb

noun:

• dirge; elegy; threnody

noun:

• crust-like shell

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to feel like it; to get to think that way; to become so minded

noun / ~の noun:

• very small amount which looks like nothing

expression:

• family members should fall into line with the head of the family even if his taste is a little odd, like wearing a red eboshi, which is ordinarily black - proverb ➜ 烏帽子

noun:

• long, rope-like excrement - colloquialism

noun:

• cheap, malt-free beer-like alcoholic beverage ➜ 第三のビール

suffix / adjective:

• look like; sound like; savor of; smack of

noun:

• hand used like a sword in striking

noun:

• oyakodon-like dish made with something other than chicken; bowl of rice with cooked meat (esp. beef or pork) and eggs on top - Food term ➜ 親子丼

adjectival noun:

• machine-like - obscure term

~の noun:

• vine-like; climbing; creeping