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.
He takes after his father.
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').