Illustration: At a community pottery workshop, a woman shapes a small clay dog while her real dog sits on a cushion beside the table. She studies its distinctive combination of one upright ear and one folded ear, then bends the clay figure's second ear to match.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

似にせる

niseru

to make resemble, to imitate

Example sentences

  1. 皮かわに卵黄らんおうを塗ぬって焼やき、栗くりの皮かわの色いろに似にせたもの。

    It is baked with egg yolk applied onto the dough to look like chestnut skin.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. これは植物性原料しょくぶつせいげんりょうを用もちいて、動物性どうぶつせいの料理りょうりに似にせたものを作つくることである。

    This is a cooking technique to make cuisine resemble animal-derived food with the use of vegetable origin materials.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 小麦粉こむぎこをこねてくぼみをつけてへそに似にせ、油あぶらで揚あげたもの。

    It is made by kneading wheat flour to have a recess into a navel shape, and frying it in oil.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 似

  • 似becoming; resembleOnジKunにる・ひる

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