Illustration: In a small municipal park, a life-size bronze dog sits on a plain stone pedestal, its sculpted fur and fixed raised paw clearly visible. Beside the pedestal, a real dog has climbed onto a low garden stone and copied precisely the same pose.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

像ぞう

zou

statue, image

Example sentences

  1. その像ぞうは型かたに入いれられて作つくられた。

    The statue was cast in a mold.

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  2. この像ぞうは実物大じつぶつだいです。

    This statue is as large as life.

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  3. 彼かれは粘土ねんどで像ぞうを形作かたちづくった。

    He shaped the statue from clay.

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Kanji in 像

  • 像statue; pictureOnゾウ

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