Kanji N2

像: statue, picture, image

像 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning statue, picture, image, written with 14 strokes. It is read ゾウ (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 5. You will see it in 想像 (そうぞう, imagination) and 映像 (えいぞう, image).

像

Meanings

  • statue
  • picture
  • image
  • figure
  • portrait
Strokes14
JLPT levelN2
School gradeGrade 5
Frequency#856 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ゾウ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • None in common use

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

Watch the stroke order

Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.

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Now draw it

Trace each stroke in order. Wrong direction or wrong order gets flagged right away.

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Your turn: draw stroke 1 of 14. Start at the dot.

Common words with 像

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 想像そうぞう

    imagination; supposition; guess

    JLPT N3
  • 映像えいぞう

    image (on a screen); picture (e.g. on a TV)

    JLPT N1
  • 像ぞう

    image; figure; statue; picture; portrait

    JLPT N1
  • 仏像ぶつぞう

    statue of Buddha; image of Buddha

    JLPT N1
  • 現像げんぞう

    development (of film); photographic processing

    JLPT N1
  • 画像がぞう

    image; picture; portrait

  • 肖像しょうぞう

    portrait; likeness; picture

  • 実像じつぞう

    real image

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.