想像

そうぞう
imagination, guess

Reading

Readingそうぞう
N3 VocabJLPT N3
Kanji想像

Meanings

  1. imagination
  2. guess
  1. suppositionn.vs.vt.

Synonyms

想像力空想

Homonyms

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Same reading (そうぞう)
創造 · creation

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

ゲーム実況者の生活リズムは、想像を絶する。
げーむじっきょうしゃのせいかつりずむは、そうぞうをぜっする。A game streamer's lifestyle is beyond imagination.
想像力のない人たちだ
そうぞうりょくのないひとたちだPeople with no imagination
立ち止まって想像力を働かせる
たちどまってそうぞうりょくをはたらかせるI stop and use my imagination

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 想像

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked