Practice JLPTMeaning
像 (ぞう, zou) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “statue, image, figure, picture, portrait”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
彼の考えていることはおよそ想像がつく。
I can make a fairly good guess about what he's thinking.
それは彼の普段の言動からはおよそ想像できない行動であった。
It was behaviour we couldn't even have imagined based on what he usually said and did.
この新宅には相当お金をかけたであろうことは想像にかたくない。
It is easy to imagine them spending a lot of money on this new house.
ハリケーンのためにガソリンがこんなに上がるとは想像すらしなかった。
I would never have imagined that gas prices would go up this much because of a hurricane.
給料が低いために教師の質が低下した（であろう）ことは想像にかたくない。
It is not hard to imagine that the quality of teachers fell because of the low salary.
猥褻画像は、それそのものが問題なのではなく、それを誰が見るかが問題だと思う。
I think that obscene images themselves are not the problem; who sees them is the problem.
そのマニュアルは説明も図も明快そのもので、画像処理の知識がない者にもよく分かる。
The manual's explanations and figures are perfectly clear, so even people with no knowledge of image processing will be able to understand them well.
映像が乱れる。
The image is fuzzy.
上記の映像化。
Adapted for the movies.
用途：医学画像。
A use: medical images.
銅像が立てられた。
A bronze statue was built.
室戸岬に銅像が立つ。
A bronze statue of him stands at Muroto-misaki Cape.