Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
bamboo 竹 (⺮)
Parts:
Variants:
writing brush, writing, painting brush, handwriting
Kun:
ふで
On:
ヒツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
1132 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 筆 【フデ】 writing brush, paintbrush, pen, writing with a brush, drawing with a brush, penmanship, something drawn with a brush, writing (composing text), the written word, (land) lot, plot
  • 筆順 【ヒツジュン】 stroke order (esp. of a Chinese character)
  • 自筆 【ジヒツ】 one's own handwriting, autograph, holograph
  • 特筆 【トクヒツ】 special mention

Kun reading compounds

  • 筆 【ふで】 writing brush, paintbrush, pen, writing with a brush, drawing with a brush, penmanship, something drawn with a brush, writing (composing text), the written word, (land) lot, plot
  • 筆跡 【ひっせき】 handwriting, calligraphy specimen, example of penmanship, holograph
  • 面相筆 【めんそうふで】 fine-point brushes
  • 焼き筆 【やきふで】 wooden stick with a burned tip (used to create underdrawings)

Readings

Japanese names:
はじめ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bi3
Korean:
pil

Spanish

  • pincel
  • escritura
  • pincel de escritura

Portuguese

  • Pincel de escrever
  • escrever
  • pincel
  • manuscrito

French

  • pinceau
  • écriture
701 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
400 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
569 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
940 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3397 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
69 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
794 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1769 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
130 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
130 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
355 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1481 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3317 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1718 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2335 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
952 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25987 Morohashi
2677 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4288 New Nelson (John Haig)
943 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1014 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
410 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2355 2001 Kanji
6f6.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-6 SKIP code
8850.7 Four corner code
1-41-14 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7b46 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
foot 足 (⻊)
Parts:
tracks, mark, print, impression
Kun:
あと
On:
セキ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
953 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 跡 【セキ】 trace
  • 史跡 【シセキ】 historic landmark, historic site, historic remains
  • 軌跡 【キセキ】 tire track, traces of a person or thing, path one has taken, locus

Kun reading compounds

  • 跡 【あと】 trace, tracks, mark, sign, site, remains, ruins, scar
  • 後始末 【あとしまつ】 settlement (of a matter), sorting out, winding up (affairs), dealing with the aftermath, cleaning up afterwards, tidying up (when finished)
  • 焼け跡 【やけあと】 ruins of a fire, fire-devastated area
  • 後々 【あとあと】 future, distant future

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ji1
Korean:
jeog

Spanish

  • marca
  • huella
  • señal
  • ruinas

Portuguese

  • trilhas
  • marca
  • impressão

French

  • traces
  • marques
  • vestiges
  • empreinte
1485 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
931 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4560 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1502 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1792 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1926 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1569 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1673 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1587 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1761 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1937 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1032 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1395 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1762 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
37493 Morohashi
1534 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5875 New Nelson (John Haig)
1746 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1883 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1671 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3741 2001 Kanji
7d6.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-6 SKIP code
6013.0 Four corner code
1-32-55 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8de1 Unicode hex code