影かげ
Meanings
Noun
1. shadow; silhouette; figure; shape
Where there is light, there is also shadow.
2. reflection; image
3. ominous sign
The shadow of war was closing in on the town.
4. light (stars, moon)
5. trace; shadow (of one's former self)
There's no trace of it left anymore.
6. behind; background; other side
non-standard; usu. written as 陰
Kanji used
shadow
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (49 in total)
figure of a person; figures of people; shadow of a person
face; looks; countenance; vestige; trace; reminder
divine spirit; spirit of the dead
Examples (39 in total)
It's a shadow.
Where there is light, there is also shadow.
A black shadow was flying through the sky.
There's no trace of it left anymore.
The shadow of war was closing in on the town.
The garden is still in shadow.
I saw a vague shadow before my eyes.
His shadow on the wall looked sad.
A small shadow moved on the roof.
He is even afraid of his own shadow.
A pitch-black shadow was reflected on the beautiful moon.
The outline of the shadow gradually becomes clear.
They have but the shadow of freedom.
The girl was afraid of her own shadow.
Can you sense the shadow of death hanging over this area?
The face is in shadow and cannot be seen.
I happened to look up, and a large shadow was rising right in front of me.
Every face was pale and shrouded in the shadow of fatigue.
Then a black shadow sprang at me from the darkness.
A shadow of anxiety swept across her face.
Shadows of clouds flow across the vast plain.
Along with that, a silver shadow was reflected on the water's surface.
I saw a shadow move behind that tree!
By evening the shadow of the tree reached the wall.
As I stood still, a black shadow eventually appeared in my field of vision.
Then a shadow suddenly fell over that smiling face.
That said, as far as I could sense, there was no ominous sign here.
When I knelt down and looked into the dark hallway, I saw someone's shadow.
My reflection shows deep in those dark eyeballs.
It appeared without warning— no sound, not even a shadow.
The shadow stretched vertically and reached the wall.
She was only a shadow of her former self after her illness.
There is something like a shadow in the greenish light.
He quietly slipped out the door and hid in the shadow of a nearby pillar.
The smoke gradually fades away, and a shadow becomes visible in the center.
When you experience a work, you shouldn't go looking for traces of its author in it.
It is only natural that the stronger the light of prosperity, the darker the shadow becomes.
In a landscape where the sand forms swirls, I spot a shadow faintly emerging.
In the shade of the tree in the garden, there was a shadow staring intently from atop a branch.