描

Meaning

描 centers on creating a visual representation by hand: sketching, drawing, or painting. The senses of composing and writing extend this idea to forming characters or pictures with deliberate strokes.

• 描くえがく
  N4

  to draw; to paint; to sketch

• 描写びょうしゃ
  N1

  depiction; description; portrayal

• 描画びょうが

  drawing; painting

• 手描きてがき

  hand-drawn; drawn by hand; hand-painted; painted by hand

• 思い描くおもいえがく

  to imagine; to picture; to figure; to see

• 描き出すえがきだす

  to delineate; to draw; to express; to imagine

• 点描てんびょう

  sketching

• 素描そびょう

  drawing; sketch

• 描出びょうしゅつ

  description; rendition

• 描き直しえがきなおし

  new frame action

• 絵を描くえをかく

  to paint a picture; to draw a picture

• 線描せんびょう

  line drawing

• 一元描写いちげんびょうしゃ

  description from one perspective

• 下描きしたがき

  rough sketch used as a guideline for a picture

• 人物寸描じんぶつすんびょう

  thumb-nail sketch

• 内面描写ないめんびょうしゃ

  psychological depiction of a literary character

• 円を描くえんをえがく

  to make a circle (of a motion, arrangement, etc.); to move (e.g. one's head) in a circle; to form (the shape of) a circle

• 再描画さいびょうが

  redraw

• 図を描くずをかく

  to draw a diagram

• 実物描写じつぶつびょうしゃ

  model drawing

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