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影

JLPT N1 15 strokes Frequency: #464

Meanings

Shadow, Silhouette, Phantom

Radicals

彡

Decomposition

⿰景彡

Etymology

Pictophonetic: sunlight

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 15

Stroke Order

1 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

2 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

6 horizontal bottom-to-top

7 vertical bottom-to-top

8 corner bottom-to-top

9 horizontal bottom-to-top

10 hook bottom-to-top

11 diagonal bottom-to-top

12 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

13 diagonal right-to-left

14 diagonal right-to-left

15 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

エイ ei

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

かげ kage

Words Using This Kanji

170 words total

Other (20 words)

半影はんえい

penumbra

本影ほんえい

umbra

面影おもかげ

face

夜間撮影やかんさつえい

night photography

野外撮影やがいさつえい

outdoor photography

shadow

人影ひとかげ

figure of a person

尊影せいえい

portrait

暗影あんえい

shadow

陰影いんえい

shadow

影武者かげむしゃ

body double

影の内閣かげのないかく

shadow cabinet

帆影ほかげ

sight of a sail (in the distance)

影も形もないかげもかたちもない

(there is) no sign (of)

斜影しゃえい

slanted or oblique shadow

片影へんえい

speck

投影機とうえいき

projector

投影法とうえいほう

(method of) projection

投影図とうえいず

projection (drawing)

火影ほかげ

firelight

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