Kanji1 / 12
筆 kanji
writing brush, writing, painting brush, handwriting
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ヒツ
Kun readings
ふで
Variant forms
笔Words with 筆
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —能筆skillful penmanship; skilled calligrapher
- —筆法style of penmanship
- —筆墨stationery; pen and ink; writing materials
- —乱筆hasty writing; scribble
- —一筆one stroke (of a brush); a few lines (of writing); note; short letter; (dropping) a line; writing in one go (without stopping to apply more ink to the brush); parcel (of land); same handwriting
- —省筆omission (of words and passages); abbreviation; writing a character in a simplified form; omitting strokes from a kanji
- —分筆subdivision of a lot
- —筆力strength of the brush stroke; power of the pen; ability to write
- —筆生copyist; amanuensis
- —筆致stroke of the brush; touch; literary style
- —筆勢stroke (dash) of the pen; (force of) brushwork
- —鉄筆stylus; steel pen; stencil pen
- —無筆illiteracy
- —俗筆unrefined penmanship
- —用筆brush; penmanship
- —石筆slate pencil
- —遅筆writing slowly
- —速筆rapid writing
- —毒筆(wielding a) vicious or poison pen
- —親筆(one's own) handwriting (esp. someone of high rank or status)