How to say "seem" in Japanese

• 思われるおもわれるCommon
  ichidan verb, intransitive verbCovers 'seem' as a judgment: something appears to be the case in your assessment, rather than to your eyes. Fits contexts where, weighing the evidence, a person seems tired or a plan seems risky.
  私には彼かれはそそっかしすぎるように思おもわれる。↗

  It seems to me that he is too careless.
• 見えるみえるJLPT N4approx.Common
  ichidan verb, intransitive verbCovers 'seem' in the visual sense of 'look': how someone or something appears to the eye. Use it when a person looks young or a room looks tidy — the impression comes from sight.
  １１ページの地図ちずはとても奇妙きみょうに見みえる。逆さかさまにしてみると、見み慣なれた地図ちずになる。↗

  The map on page 11 looks very strange. Turn it upside down. Then it becomes a familiar map to you.

Use 「思われる」 when something seems a certain way as a judgment or inference, and 「見える」 when it seems that way to the eye, that is, how it looks.

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• 思われるおもわれるto seem
• 思えるおもえるto seem
• 見えるみえるto look