noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
spitting image; exactly alike; like two peas in a pod
Idiomatic expression used almost exclusively for physical resemblance, especially between family members. Often used with ~だ or ~のようだ.
Those twins are the spitting image of each other.
He looks exactly like his father, doesn't he?
Standard kanji spelling for this idiomatic expression.
Search-only mixed kanji-kana form; not a standard written variant.
Literally “a melon in two,” evoking the nearly identical halves produced by cutting one melon apart.