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鉛筆

鉛筆

See also: 铅笔

Chinese

lead (metal)
 
pen; pencil; writing brush; to write or compose; the strokes of Chinese characters
trad. (鉛筆) 鉛 筆
simp. (铅笔) 铅 笔
anagram 筆鉛／笔铅

Noun

鉛筆

  1. pencil; lead pencil   (Classifier: 枝)

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
鉛 筆
えん
Grade: S 		ひつ > ぴつ
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

鉛筆 ‎(counter 本, hiragana えんぴつ, romaji enpitsu)

  1. a pencil (graphite writing-instrument)

Compounds

  • 鉛筆画

Descendants

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.

Korean

Hanja in this term
鉛 筆

Noun

鉛筆 • ‎(yeonpil, McCune-Reischauer: yŏnp'il, Yale: yenphil) ‎(hangeul 연필)

  1. Hanja form? of 연필, “pencil”.

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), from Japanese 鉛筆 (えんぴつ) ‎(enpitsu, “pencil”), semantically readapted from Chinese 鉛筆／铅笔 (“pen made from lead powder”).

Pronunciation

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