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象

Level III of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 384 / 2,608

Elephant

On’yomi
しょう、ぞう
Kun’yomi
—
Radical
豕 Pig (Kangxi 152)
School grade
5
Strokes
11

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

More common than 優 (Superior), less common than 史 (History).

The character 象 (elephant) shows a large figure with a long trunk and thick legs — the unmistakable silhouette of an elephant with its trunk curving downward.

In words

象 ぞう elephantN3
象徴 しょうちょう symbolN1
対象 たいしょう target,object (of worship, study, etc),subject (of taxation, etc)N3

象 is rank 384 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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