noun:

• inverted copper or iron bell shaped like a bowl (sounded when reciting sutras)

pre-noun adjectival:

• like; similar to ➜ 様だ・ように

noun:

• house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud

noun:

• young person with a monkey-like face (nickname for Toyotomi Hideyoshi)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to begin to like something (one did not initially like); to gradually become enamoured with something; to have something grow on you - slang - abbreviation ➜ じわじわ・じわじわ来る

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• to begin to like something (one did not initially like); to gradually become enamoured with something; to have something grow on you - colloquialism ➜ じわじわ

noun:

• iteration mark shaped like the hiragana "ku" (used in vertical writing to represent repetition of two or more characters) ➜ 踊り字

expression:

• like father, like son - proverb

noun:

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

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to sleep like a log; to sleep like a baby - idiom

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:

• sword blade

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

noun:

• tempered blade

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