絵

Meaning

絵 centers on a visual representation made by hand: a picture, drawing, painting, or sketch. All the given meanings are direct types of such handmade images.

• 絵え
  N5

  picture; drawing; painting; sketch

• 絵本えほん
  N2

  picture book

• 絵画かいが
  N3

  painting; picture

• 絵柄えがら

  pattern; design

• 絵師えし

  painter; artist

• 絵かきえかき

  painter; artist

• 絵文字えもじ

  emoji

• 似顔絵にがおえ
  N1

  portrait; likeness; sketch (of a face)

• 挿絵さしえ

  illustration (in a book, newspaper, etc.); picture

• 絵図えず

  illustration; drawing

• 九絵くえ

  longtooth grouper (Epinephelus bruneus)

• 浮世絵うきよえ

  ukiyo-e; ukiyoe; Edo-period woodblock print

• 絵の具えのぐ
  N2

  paint; coloring materials; colors; colours

• 絵馬えま

  votive tablet; wooden tablet usu. filled out with a prayer and one's name and hung up at a shrine or temple; orig. picturing a horse, as a stand-in for a donation of a live horse

• 油絵あぶらえ
  N1

  oil painting

• 絵巻えまき

  picture scroll

• 塗り絵ぬりえ

  picture for coloring in (colouring)

• 絵日記えにっき

  illustrated diary; picture diary

• 絵葉書えはがき
  N1

  picture postcard

• 絵心えごころ

  artistic taste; aptitude for painting; ability to appreciate art

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