写

Meaning

写 centers on producing a faithful reproduction: copying, transcribing, or capturing an image. The sense of being photographed is a natural extension of capturing a likeness, and describing is a form of reproducing something in words.

• 写真しゃしん
  N5

  photograph; photo; picture; photography

• 描写びょうしゃ
  N1

  depiction; description; portrayal

• 実写じっしゃ

  live action (as opposed to animation)

• 写るうつる
  N2

  to be photographed; to be projected

• 写しうつし
  N1

  copy; duplicate; facsimile; transcript

• 写りうつり

  projection; reflection; image; reception (e.g. TV); picture quality

• 写すうつす
  N4

  to copy; to duplicate; to reproduce; to trace; to transcribe

• 被写体ひしゃたい

  (photographic) subject

• 試写ししゃ

  preview; private showing

• 模写もしゃ

  copy (of the real thing); copying; reproduction; tracing

• 転写てんしゃ

  transcription (of a text, DNA, RNA, etc.); copying; transfer (printing)

• 複写ふくしゃ
  N2

  copying; duplication; reproduction; copy

• 写本しゃほん

  manuscript (book); written copy of a book; codex; transcription; copying

• 写実しゃじつ

  realism; depicting realistically; representing accurately

• 映写えいしゃ
  N1

  projection (on a screen)

• 激写げきしゃ

  (taking a) spectacular photograph; photo taken at just the right moment

• 写経しゃきょう

  hand-copied sutras; copying of a sutra

• 接写せっしゃ

  close-up photography

• 写生しゃせい
  N2

  sketching; drawing from nature; portrayal; description

• 映写機えいしゃき

  projector (film, slide, etc.)

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