日本語道場

Nihongo Dojo — N3 → N2

Kanji

N3

Meaningselephant, pattern after, imitate, image, shape
On'yomiショウ、ゾウ
Kun'yomiかたど
Strokes12
Radical

Compounds

  • impression

  • impressive, striking, memorable, impactful

  • concreteness, embodiment, expressing concretely

  • phenomenon

  • form, shape, figure, appearance

  • symbol (of something abstract), emblem, (symbolic) representation

  • object, target, subject

Example sentences

  • This applies to everyone.

  • Even people who don't believe in the Catholic church venerate the Pope as a symbolic leader.

  • I didn't mean to give you that impression.

  • An analysis of the nature of the heat island phenomenon and countermeasures.

  • This is a condition caused by aging.

  • The hunters aimed at the elephant.

  • Critics may argue that all the foregoing characterizations are very abstract.

  • They are interested in abstract reasoning.