Illustration: At a family celebration in a Japanese apartment, three generations gather around a dining table with a homemade cake. One chair remains deliberately empty, with a grandfather’s familiar cap resting on its back and his teacup set before it.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

象しょう徴ちょう的てき

shouchouteki

symbolic

Example sentences

  1. カトリックを信しんじていない人々ひとびとでさえ象徴的しょうちょうてき指導者しどうしゃとして法王ほうおうを敬うやまっている。

    Even people who don’t believe in the Catholic church venerate the Pope as a symbolic leader.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 密教みっきょうの世界観せかいかんを象徴的しょうちょうてきに表あらわしたものである。

    It represents Esoteric Buddhism’s world view symbolically.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 室町時代むろまちじだいの武家社会ぶけしゃかいでも、畳たたみは地位権力ちいけんりょくを表あらわす為ために、象徴的しょうちょうてきに利用りようされた。

    In the samurai world during the Muromachi period, tatami was utilized to show power as a symbol.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 象徴的

  • 象image; elephantOnショウ・ゾウKunかたどる
  • 徴indications; signOnチョウ・チKunしるし
  • 的bull's eye; markOnテキKunまと

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