Kanji1 / 13
照 kanji
illuminate, shine, compare, bashful
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ショウ
Kun readings
てるてらすてれる
Variant forms
曌瞾Words with 照
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —照臨looking down (from the heavens); visit of a high-ranking person
- —残照afterglow
- —観照contemplation; meditation; (objective) observation
- —光照shining
- —照映portrait
- —遍照universal illumination (esp. in Buddhism, by the dharma-body)
- —落照light of the evening sun; setting sun
- —護照(Chinese) passport
- —小照miniature; small photograph
- —照門rear sight (of a firearm)
- —照射法irradiation
- —前照灯headlight (on a vehicle)
- —日照権the right to sunshine; in zoning, the right to have sunlight falling on one's building not be obstructed by new buildings
- —欄参照column reference; see column below
- —探照灯searchlight
- —日照計heliograph
- —照明弾flare; star shell
- —照明器lighting equipment
- —照度計illuminometer; luminometer; illuminance meter
- —照射野irradiation field (of X-rays)