picture, drawing, painting, sketch
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 is the modern simplified form of 繪. The older form combines 糸 (thread) with 會, which likely contributed the sound and the idea of combining or assembling, suggesting threads assembled into a picture. The modern 会 component is a simplification of 會.
Threads 糸 come together 会 to form a picture, like threads woven into a tapestry that creates an image.
For カイ, imagine a colorful kite (カイト) painted with a beautiful picture: kite -> カイ, and the picture is woven from threads.
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picture; drawing; painting; sketch
picture book
painting; picture
pattern; design
painter; artist
painter; artist
emoji
portrait; likeness; sketch (of a face)
illustration (in a book, newspaper, etc.); picture
illustration; drawing
longtooth grouper (Epinephelus bruneus)
ukiyo-e; ukiyoe; Edo-period woodblock print
paint; coloring materials; colors; colours
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
oil painting
picture scroll
picture for coloring in (colouring)
illustrated diary; picture diary
picture postcard
artistic taste; aptitude for painting; ability to appreciate art