Word Meaning 形容

けいよう keiyou

形容 is read as けいよう (keiyou) and means form.

Meaning

English

  1. form
  2. figure
  3. appearance
  4. description
  5. expression (in words)
  6. qualification (e.g. of a noun with an adjective)
  7. modification
  8. figurative expression

Reading

Kana

けいよう

Romaji

keiyou

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 17 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 5 Kanken 6級 Rank 8959 Priority B

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

形容語

けいようご

epithet

形容のない

けいようのない

indescribable (esp. indescribably beautiful)

形容詞

けいようし

adjective

形容詞相当語句

けいようしそうとうごく

adjectival equivalent

形容句

けいようく

phrase used as an adjective

形容詞幹

けいようしかん

stem (word)

形容動詞

けいようどうし

adjectival noun (in Japanese)

形容詞的

けいようしてき

adjectival

形容詞句

けいようしく

adjective phrase

形容矛盾

けいようむじゅん

contradictio in adjecto

形容枯槁す

けいようここうす

to be emaciated

Example Sentences

10

These adjectives are all positive.

"Small" and "little" are adjectives.

The next sentence has adjectives and adverbs.

In any case please stop using "pretty" when describing a man.

Things that modify nouns (adjective, or adjectival equivalent).

Things that modify nouns are adjectives or equivalent to adjectives.

'-osity' is an abstract noun word ending created from the ending of an '-ous' adjective.

Things that modify nouns are prototypically adjectives or equivalent to adjectives.

Adjectives in English are often used as adverbs with no change in form.

Russian adjectives agree in gender, number, and case with the nouns or pronouns to which they refer.