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.

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