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)
On readings
ショウゾウ
Kun readings
かたどる
Words with 象
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —形象shape; figure; image
- —写象image
- —捨象abstraction
- —象形hieroglyphics; pictograph; character representing a picture of an object
- —天象weather; astronomical phenomena
- —表象symbol (of); emblem; (mental) image; representation; idea
- —万象all creation; all nature; all the universe
- —物象object; natural phenomenon; science of inanimate nature
- —観象(meterological) observation
- —象限quadrant
- —矩象quadrature
- —四象four images; four symbols; four emblems; four phenomena; four phases
- —地象terrestrial phenomena (phenomenon)
- —仮象semblance; appearance
- —海象oceanic phenomenon; sea conditions
- —象貌appearance; figure
- —心象mental image; mental picture; image
- —泥象clay figure (buried with the dead in ancient China); earthen statue
- —印象派Impressionists
- —具象的concrete; material; representational; figurative