Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N2

394 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 12

Meaning: elephant, pattern after, imitate, image, shape, sign (of the times)

Kunyomi: かたど.る

Onyomi: ショウ ゾウ

Composition: 𠂊

Radical

Radical:

Reading: いのこ

Meaning: pig

Strokes: 7

Examples

Examples with audio

(いんしょう)   impression

(たいしょう)   target, object, subject

(げんしょう)   phenomenon

(きしょう)   climate

的(ちゅうしょうてき)   abstract

徴する(しょうちょうする)   symbolize

形文字(しょうけいもじ)   hieroglyph

(ぞう)   elephant

牙(ぞうげ)   ivory

Onyomi Examples

ショウ form, shape, figure, appearance, phenomenon

将棋 ショウギ shogi, Japanese chess

グショウ embodying, expressing concretely

チュウショウ abstract

ゾウ elephant (Elephantidae spp.)

ゾウゲ ivory

アジア アジアゾウ Asian elephant, Indian elephant

セイウチ walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), elephant seal (Mirounga spp.)

Kunyomi Examples

かたどる to model on, to make in the shape of, to represent, to pattern after, to imitate, to symbolise