Kanji1 / 12
象 kanji
elephant, pattern after, imitate, image, shape, sign (of the times)
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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On readings
ショウゾウ
Kun readings
かたどる
Words with 象
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —現象学的社会学phenomenological sociology
- —ドーナツ化現象doughnut effect (exodus of residents from city centers to the suburbs); donut effect
- —紅色球形形象物red globular shape; red ball signal shape (marine safety context)
- —プルキニエ現象Purkinje effect
- —抽象的人間労働abstract human labour; abstract human labor
- —ガラパゴス現象Galapagos phenomenon; Galapagos syndrome; tendency of Japanese products (e.g. cell phones) to be designed specifically for the domestic market, which are therefore unsuccessful overseas and also vulnerable to competition from imports
- —中間圏発光現象transient luminous event
- —青木まりこ現象Mariko Aoki phenomenon; phenomenon of feeling an urge to defecate when stepping inside a bookstore
- —サブマリン現象seatbelt submarining (sliding under a seatbelt during a collision); seat belt submarining
- —プルースト現象Proustian memory (involuntary memory triggered by a smell); Proust effect; Proust phenomenon
- —ラニーニャ現象La Niña phenomenon
- —未確認異常現象unidentified anomalous phenomena; UAP
- —札幌管区気象台Sapporo District Meteorological Observatory
- —室蘭地方気象台Muroran Local Meteorological Observatory
- —新防災気象情報New Disaster Prevention Weather Information (revised system of weather warnings and advisories introduced by the JMA in May 2026)
- —デリンジャー現象Dellinger phenomenon
- —規格参照具象構文reference concrete syntax
- —試験対象システムsystem under test; SUT
- —取り出し抽象操作fetch abstract-operation
- —宣言済み具象構文declared concrete syntax