Kanji1 / 5
写 kanji
copy, be photographed, describe
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
シャジャ
Kun readings
うつすうつるうつ-うつし
Variant forms
冩寫Words with 写
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —映写室projection room; projection booth
- —実写化live-action adaptation (of a manga, animated film, etc.)
- —写字室scriptorium
- —試写会advance screening; preview; private showing; trade show
- —アー写official promotional photo of a musician, model, etc.
- —熱転写thermal transfer
- —写真店photo shop; photo studio
- —ジャケ写jacket picture (i.e. of a record)
- —自然描写description of nature
- —写実主義realism; literalism
- —写真機店camera shop
- —写真結婚staged wedding photographs; photo-only wedding; having wedding photography taken without holding an actual wedding; marriage arranged after viewing photographs; picture marriage; photo marriage
- —写真嫌いcameraphobia; being camera-shy; dislike of having one's photograph taken
- —写真写りphotogenicity
- —写真植字phototypesetting; photocomposition
- —写真石版photolithography
- —写真測量photographic surveying
- —写真電送facsimile transmission; phototelegraphy
- —写真凸版phototype
- —写真判定deciding the winner from a photo