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
- —色鉛筆colored pencil; coloured pencil
- —文筆業literary profession; writing
- —筆記帳notebook
- —潤筆料fee for writing or painting
- —文筆家writer; author; literary person; one who lives from writing
- —筆記体cursive style
- —筆記者copyist
- —筆頭者head of a family; first name on a list
- —筆記具writing materials
- —筆耕料copying fee
- —随筆家essayist
- —随筆集collection of essays (miscellaneous writings, literary jottings, etc.)
- —鉛筆画sketch (done by pencil)
- —肉筆画picture painted by hand; painting (as opposed to a woodblock print); original painting; original drawing
- —筆禅道Art of the Brush (esp. school of Japanese Zen calligraphy)
- —筆写体cursive typeface
- —筆跡学graphology
- —代筆者amanuensis
- —毛筆画hair-pencil picture; wash drawing
- —一筆箋small notepad