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
- —鉛筆削りpencil sharpener
- —刀筆の吏minor official
- —筆写略字handwritten abbreviation (of kanji)
- —口述筆記taking dictation; note-taking
- —筆跡鑑定handwriting analysis
- —特筆大書(printed or written in) large letters
- —鉛筆の芯lead of a pencil
- —前頭筆頭two highest ranked maegashira wrestlers
- —十両筆頭two highest ranked wrestlers in juryo division
- —乱筆乱文(my) poor writing; scribbling; hasty writing
- —一筆啓上this will just be a short note; I'm writing to tell you
- —直言直筆speak and write plainly (frankly); speak and write without reserve
- —筆禍事件troubles brought on by what one has written; incident occasioned by a serious slip of the pen
- —鉛筆書きdrawing or writing in pencil
- —鉛筆柏槙eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana); red cedar; red juniper; pencil cedar; aromatic cedar
- —鉛筆の木eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
- —筆頭著者first author
- —執筆生活writing life; period of life spent writing
- —筆頭株主biggest shareholder; largest stockholder
- —執筆時点at the time of writing