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写

Copy
Stroke count: 5

Readings

On readingシャ
Kun readingうつ.す、うつ.る

Verbs with «写»

写る写す描写する

Meanings

  1. copyRtK
    2月15日、左京阿日教著穆作抄を写す。He copied Sakyo Anikkyo Mukasasho on March 28wiki
  2. be photographed
  3. describe
  1. to be photographed
  2. to be projected

Popular Usage

写真写す写る写生写し映写

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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crown (冖) · bestow · slingshot · catapult · one (一)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1336

Compound words

パリで撮った妻の写真を見るにつけ、あの時の楽しかった旅行を思い出す。しゃしん
When I see the photo of my wife I took in Paris, I remember what a great time we had on that trip.tatoeba
彼は父親に生き写しだ。
He is the very image of his father.tatoeba
彼は彼女の手紙と写真をすべて切り裂いた。
He ripped up all her letters and photos.tatoeba
彼は彼女にその写真を見せられた。
He was shown the photo by her.tatoeba
彼は彼の写真帳を私に見せてくれた。
He showed his photograph album to me.tatoeba
住本寺十代、日廣、重須にて二箇相承全文を書写す。
Nikko, the tenth chief priest of Juhon-ji Temple, transcribed the whole Nika Sojo at Omosu.wiki
写生を重要視している。
He placed great importance on sketching.wiki
写生画:円山応挙、松村月渓
Scketch: Okyo MARUYAMA, and Gekkei MATSUMURAwiki
各地に写しの茶席が残る。
Tea houses modeled after Joan still remain in different places.wiki
書写した人物の署名はない。
It was not signed by its writer.wiki

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

写真だけではなく実物を見ることは大切
しゃしんだけではなくじつぶつをみることはたいせつSeeing the actual object, not just photographs, is important.
木村さんに旅行の写真を見せました。
きむらさんにりょこうのしゃしんをみせました。I showed Kimura photos from the trip.
首を三十度ほど左に傾け、醜く笑っている写真である
くびをさんじゅうどほどひだりにかたむけ、みにくくわらっているしゃしんであるHe tilted his head about thirty degrees to the left and smiled hideously in the photo.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

5 strokes

Copy; photograph. 冖 (cover) + 与 — transferring an image under a cover. Simplified 寫.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 写

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