似る
Kana: にる
to resemble; be like
Example sentence
顔が母に似ると言われます。
かおがははににるといわれます。
People say my face resembles my mother's.
What 似る means
似る (にる) is a Japanese word meaning “to resemble; be like”. It belongs to the Grammar & Phrases topic and appears at Level 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.