Illustration: At the entrance of a Japanese family home, a schoolgirl greets her visiting aunt, who has the same distinctive eyebrows and curly fringe as the girl's father. The father and aunt laugh at their resemblance while their children discover they have brought identical toy animals.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

親しん類るい

shinrui

relative

Example sentences

彼かれは親類しんるいの者ものと意見いけんが合あわない。
He disagrees with his relatives.
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彼かれは私わたしの遠とおい親類しんるいです。
He is my distant relation.
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彼かれは全すべての親類しんるいと絶交ぜっこうした。
He broke with all his relatives.
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Kanji in 親類

親parent; intimacyOnシンKunおや・おや-・したしい
類sort; kindOnルイKunたぐい

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