The kanji 筆: meaning, readings and stroke order

筆

Meaning: brush, writing
On reading: ヒツ hitsu
Kun reading: ふで fude
Strokes: 12
Radical: 竹 bamboo
Level: Level 3 · grade 3

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: bút lông, viết (bút)
Japanese: ふで。かくこと。
Korean: 붓, 글씨 (필)
Chinese: 毛笔、书写 (笔)

Readings, words and example sentences

ヒツ hitsu · on reading · less common

筆ひっ記き
writing (by hand)
明日 筆ひっ記きのテストがあります。
We have a written test tomorrow.

ふで fude · kun reading

筆ふで
writing brush
筆ふでで大きな字を書きます。
I write big characters with a brush.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.