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絵

Picture
Stroke count: 12

Readings

On readingカイ、エ
JLPT level: N3JōyōGrade 2Level 8

Meanings

  1. pictureRtK
    トムが出品した絵は皆入賞した。Tom got prizes for all the pictures he sent to the exhibition.tatoeba
    光が絵の中には描かれていない大きな窓から射し込んでいます。Light shines through the large windows outside the picture frame.tatoeba
  2. drawing
  3. painting
    彼は日本で自分の絵を展示したいと望んでいる。He hopes to exhibit his paintings in Japan.tatoeba
    密教絵画が多い。Many esoteric Buddhism paintingswiki
  4. sketch
  1. image (TV, film, etc.)

Synonyms

ピクチャー

Homonyms

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Same reading (え)
柄 · handle江 · inlet

Popular Usage

絵画絵の具油絵

Radicals and components

Radical糸silk纟variant
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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thread (糸) · spiderman · meeting · one (一) · wall · umbrella · rising cloud · two (二) · elbow · wall

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1446

Compound words

絵画かいが
painting; picture
絵の具えのぐ
paint; coloring materials; colors; colours
絵巻えまき
picture scroll
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
襖絵ふすまえ
images drawn or painted on fusuma
錦絵にしきえ
nishiki-e; multi-colour woodblock print
油絵あぶらえ
oil painting
影絵かげえ
shadow picture; silhouette; shadowgraph
絵本えほん
picture book
墨絵すみえ
ink painting
挿絵さしえ
illustration (in a book, newspaper, etc.); picture
絵巻物えまきもの
picture scroll
絵文字えもじ
emoji; pictorial symbol; pictograph; pictogram; ASCII art
似顔絵にがおえ
portrait; likeness; sketch (of a face)
浮世絵うきよえ
ukiyo-e; ukiyoe; Edo-period woodblock print
絵葉書えはがき
picture postcard
踏み絵ふみえ
fumi-e; fumie; tablet bearing Christian images, on which Edo-period authorities forced suspected Christians to trample; allegiance test; loyalty test
絵ときえとき
explanation of a picture; explanation by means of pictures; explanation (of an incident, one's reasoning, etc.); unravelling (a mystery); clearing up
絵を描くえをかく
to paint a picture; to draw a picture
下絵したえ
rough sketch
絵具えのぐ
paint
絵図えず
illustration
絵描えかき
painter
絵柄えがら
pattern

Additional Examples

これは彼が自分で描いた絵ですか。
Is this a picture that he drew by himself?tatoeba
彼女は弟の絵を完成させるのを手伝った。
She helped her brother out with his picture.tatoeba
室町水墨画・中世絵画
Muromachi-Suiboku-ga (Ink landscape paintings in the Muromachi Period)/ Middle Ages paintingswiki

Stroke Order

12 strokes

Picture. 糸 (thread) + 会 (bring together) — coloured threads combined into an image.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 絵

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step