looking like; taking after
Suffix attached to a noun (often a person's name or a family member term) to mean 'resembling' or 'taking after' that person. Common in everyday speech.
彼はお父さん似だ。
He takes after his father.
この子は母親似の顔立ちをしている。
This child has features that resemble her mother.
suit; look good on; match well with
well-matched; becoming; suitable
well-matched; suitable; becoming
suitable; appropriate; fitting
copy; imitate; counterfeit; forge
portrait; likeness; caricature
resemble closely; be very similar
effigy; likeness; portrait; statue
nise-e; Kamakura-period portrait style
Hemibarbus barbus; a species of cyprinid fish
deepsea smelt
strikingly similar; bearing a strong resemblance
striking resemblance; dead ringer
accidental resemblance
anthropoid ape; ape
fake; copy; imitation · barge; lighter
Suffix derived from the verb 似る (にる, 'to resemble').