sketch, compose, write, draw, paint
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 combines 扌 (hand) with 苗, which likely contributes the sound ビョウ and suggests the idea of tracing or drawing, as a seedling is carefully tended by hand.
A hand 扌 beside a seedling 苗: imagine an artist's hand carefully sketching the delicate shape of a young plant.
For ビョウ, picture a sketch of a beautiful 美容 (びよう, beauty) salon: ビョウ from びよう cues the reading, and the hand draws the elegant design.
to draw; to paint; to sketch
depiction; description; portrayal
drawing; painting
hand-drawn; drawn by hand; hand-painted; painted by hand
to imagine; to picture; to figure; to see
to delineate; to draw; to express; to imagine
sketching
drawing; sketch
description; rendition
new frame action
description from one perspective
rough sketch used as a guideline for a picture
thumb-nail sketch
psychological depiction of a literary character
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
redraw
to draw a diagram
model drawing
thumbnail sketch; brief sketch
to draw an arc (e.g. with a compass); to describe an arc (e.g. through the air); to form an arc