影

音読おんよみ: エイ

訓読くんよみ: かげ

画数かくすう: 15

部首ぶしゅ: さんづくり

Meaning

Shadow / silhouette / image.

  • かげ — shadow; silhouette
  • 影響えいきょう — influence; effect
  • 面影おもかげ — face; looks; vestige; trace
  • 陰影いんえい — light and shade; shadows
  • 残影ざんえい — afterimage
  • 投影とうえい — projection; casting a shadow

The top part (scenery, brightness) combines with the radical (さんづくり, patterns and decoration). Together they suggest the light of a scene casting lines of pattern, forming a shadow or silhouette.

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