Kanji
N3 12 strokes Grade 2 freq #895

picture, drawing, painting, sketch

On'yomi (音読み)

Radical (部首)

silk ito

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

picture; drawing
painting; picture
picture book
ukiyo-e; ukiyoe
oil painting
illustration (in a book, newspaper, etc.); picture
picture scroll
pattern; design
paintbrush
shadow picture; silhouette

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

paint; coloring materials
fumi-e; fumie
illustrated; pictorial
oil paints; oil colors (colours)

Example sentences

He showed me a picture of his own painting.

He said that he had seen the picture before.

I obtained the painting at an auction.

This is a painting.