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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ショウゾウ
Kun readings
かたどる
Words with 象
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —京都府立堂本印象美術館Kyoto Prefectural Insho-domoto Museum of Fire Arts
- —所定期間保存対象ファイルarchived file
- —氣象weather (conditions); disposition; temperament
- —象棋shogi; Japanese chess
- —象戯shogi; Japanese chess
- —瑞象auspicious sign; good omen
- —広象棋kō shogi (large-board variant of shogi)
- —廣象棋kō shogi (large-board variant of shogi)
- —対象療法symptomatic therapy; allopathy; makeshift solution; stopgap measures; temporary expedient
- —中国象棋Chinese chess; xiangqi
- —印象づけるto impress (someone)
- —印象をあたえるto give an impression; to make an impression
- —白色菱形形象物white diamond shape; white diamond signal shape (marine safety context)
- —青木まり子現象Mariko Aoki phenomenon; phenomenon of feeling an urge to defecate when stepping inside a bookstore