Kanji1 / 15
影 kanji
shadow, silhouette, phantom
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
エイ
Kun readings
かげ
Words with 影
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —尊影portrait
- —暗影shadow; gloom
- —陰影shadow; shade; shading; gloom; nuance; shades of meaning; subtleties
- —斜影slanted or oblique shadow
- —片影speck; glimpse
- —ご影image (esp. of a deity, buddha, royal, noble, etc.)
- —敵影signs of the enemy
- —船影sign of a ship (e.g. through fog, silhouette, etc.); outline of a ship
- —隻影a glimpse of an object's outlines
- —照影portrait
- —残影traces; remnants
- —近影recent photograph (of a person); recent picture; latest photograph
- —影印facsimile
- —印影impression of a seal
- —孤影lonely figure
- —魚影outline of a solitary fish (as seen through the water when fishing, etc.)
- —樹影shadow of a tree
- —読影interpretation of radiograms; radiographic image interpretation
- —泡影bubbles and shadows; something transient
- —電影movie; film; lightning