How is a tesseract a 4D shape when it can be drawn in 3D space?

Question

A tesseract can be represented in normal 3D space, but it’s labelled a 4D object – why is this?

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Answer 1

As an analogy; a cube is a 3D shape, but you can draw a picture of one on a 2D sheet of paper. The 3D representation of the tesseract is the equivalent of the drawing of a cube.