# 影 — Shadow

Frequency rank 437 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 答 (Answer), less common than 増 (Increase).

- On’yomi: えい
- Kun’yomi: かげ
- Radical: 彡 Bristle (Kangxi 59)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

A sun on the left shines on a capital in the middle, with hair on the right — the sun casts the capital's hair-like spires into long shadows stretching across the ground.

In words:

- 影 かげ — shade,shadow,other side
- 影響 えいきょう — influence,effect
- 撮影 さつえい — photographing

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