影

Meaning

影 centers on a dark form cast by light: a shadow or silhouette. The phantom sense extends this to something insubstantial or ghostly, like a shadow without a solid source.

• 影響えいきょう
  N3

  influence; effect; impact

• 撮影さつえい
  N2

  photography (still or motion); photographing; filming; shooting; (video) recording

• 影かげ
  N3

  shadow; silhouette; figure; shape

• 悪影響あくえいきょう

  bad influence; negative influence

• 投影とうえい
  N1

  projection (of a shadow); casting (a reflection); reflection; cast shadow

• 面影おもかげ
  N1

  face; looks; countenance

• 幻影げんえい

  phantom; vision; illusion

• 遺影いえい

  portrait of a deceased person

• 影武者かげむしゃ

  body double; double

• 人影ひとかげ
  N1

  figure of a person; figures of people

• 陰影いんえい

  shadow; shade; shading; gloom

• 月影げつえい

  moonlight; moon; moonbeams

• 御影みかげ

  divine spirit; spirit of the dead

• 造影ぞうえい

  contrast imaging

• 影絵かげえ

  shadow picture; silhouette; shadowgraph

• 火影ほかげ

  firelight; shadows or forms moving in firelight

• 御影石みかげいし

  granite

• 影法師かげぼうし

  shadow figure; silhouette

• 射影しゃえい

  projection

• 印影いんえい

  impression of a seal

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