筆

Meaning

筆 centers on the tool and act of writing or painting with a brush: a writing brush, handwriting, or the resulting written work.

• 筆ふで
  N3

  writing brush; paintbrush; pen

• 執筆しっぴつ
  N2

  writing; authoring

• 筆頭ひっとう

  brush tip

• 鉛筆えんぴつ
  N5

  (wooden) pencil

• 土筆つくし

  fertile shoot of field horsetail

• 筆者ひっしゃ
  N3

  writer; author

• 筆記ひっき
  N2

  (taking) notes; copying

• 特筆とくひつ

  special mention

• 直筆じきひつ

  one's own handwriting; autograph

• 加筆かひつ

  improvement (to a piece of writing or painting); revision; correction; touching up

• 万年筆まんねんひつ
  N5

  fountain pen

• 筆跡ひっせき

  handwriting

• 色鉛筆いろえんぴつ

  colored pencil; coloured pencil

• 代筆だいひつ

  writing on someone's behalf

• 自筆じひつ

  one's own handwriting; autograph; holograph

• 一筆いっぴつ

  one stroke (of a brush)

• 随筆ずいひつ
  N2

  essays; miscellaneous writings; literary jottings

• 筆談ひつだん

  communicating in writing

• 毛筆もうひつ

  (writing, painting) brush

• 文筆ぶんぴつ

  literary art; literary activity; writing

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