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
- —麗筆beautiful brushwork or writing
- —紙筆pen and paper; writing
- —細筆fine brush or pencil; writing brush with a fine point; (artistically) detailed writing; fine writing; writing minutely; writing down in detail (of information); minutely recording
- —拙筆poor handwriting; humble reference to one's own handwriting
- —起筆beginning to write; beginning of a brush-stroke
- —略筆outline; synopsis; summary; writing a character (e.g. kanji) in a simplified form; simplified character
- —硬筆pen or pencil
- —漫筆random jottings
- —末筆part of end phrase in a letter
- —右筆private secretary; amanuensis
- —筆才literary talent
- —遺筆writing left by the deceased
- —落筆initial brush stroke in calligraphy
- —補筆retouch; correction; improvement
- —擱筆stopping writing
- —終筆end of a brush-stroke
- —筆界boundary (e.g. of property)
- —筆画stroke in a Chinese character
- —断筆ceasing to write; ceasing one's writing activities; retiring as a writer; putting down one's pen
- —筆録written record