絵

picture

Stroke count: 12

Readings

On readingカイ、エ

JLPT level: N3 Jōyō Grade 2

Meanings

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
drawing
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
sketch

image (TV, film, etc.)

Synonyms

Popular Usage

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

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

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

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