"絵" meaning in All languages combined

See 絵 on Wiktionary

Character [Chinese]

Forms: For pronunciation and definitions of 絵 – see 繪 . . Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China [canonical], and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong [canonical], and Taiwan. [canonical], etc.” [romanization]
Etymology: Simplified from 繪 (會 → 会). Etymology templates: {{Han simp|繪|f=會|t=会}} Simplified from 繪 (會 → 会)
  1. Tags: Macau, Malaysia, form-of, no-gloss, variant

Affix [Japanese]

IPA: [ka̠i] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (かい)), kai [romanization], kwai [romanization], くわい [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: From Middle Chinese 繪 (MC hwajH). The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing. Etymology templates: {{der|ja|ltc|-|sort=かい}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|繪}} 繪 (MC hwajH), {{glink/ja|kan'on}} kan'on Head templates: {{ja-pos|affix|かい|hhira=くわい}} 絵(かい) • (kai) ^(←くわい (kwai)?)
  1. picture, painting, drawing, sketch
    Sense id: en-絵-ja-affix-AvmhGLpZ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Character [Japanese]

Forms: [kyūjitai]
  1. picture Tags: grade-2-kanji, kanji, shinjitai
    Sense id: en-絵-ja-character-LOonTQvt Categories (other): Grade 2 kanji, Japanese terms with redundant script codes, Japanese terms with redundant transliterations Derived forms: 油絵 (aburae) (ruby: (あぶら), ()) (english: oil painting), 絵柄 (egara) (ruby: (), (がら)) (english: pattern, print, design), 絵心 (egokoro) (ruby: (), (ごころ)) (english: aptitude for painting; artistic taste), 絵詞 (ekotoba) (ruby: (), (ことば)) (english: words describing a picture), 絵師 (eshi) (ruby: (), ()) (english: painter), 絵図 (ezu) (ruby: (), ()) (english: painting, drawing, illustration), 絵姿 (esugata) (ruby: (), 姿(すがた)) (english: portrait), 絵素 (eso) (ruby: (), ()) (english: pixel), 絵像 (ezō) (ruby: (), (ぞう)) (english: portrait), 絵面 (ezura) (ruby: (), (づら)) (english: impression from a sight), 絵筆 (efude) (ruby: (), (ふで)) (english: paintbrush), 絵本 (ehon) (ruby: (), (ほん)) (english: picture book), 絵馬 (ema) (ruby: (), ()) (english: ema, wooden plaque), 絵文字 (emoji) (ruby: (), (), ()) (english: pictograph, emoji), 絵画 (kaiga) (ruby: (かい), ()) (english: picture), 口絵 (kuchie) (ruby: (くち), ()) (english: frontispiece), 踏み絵 (fumie) (ruby: (), ()), 蒔絵 (makie) (ruby: (まき), ()) (english: maki-e)

Noun [Japanese]

IPA: [e̞] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: ()), e [romanization], [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: /we/ → /e/ From Middle Chinese 繪 (MC hwajH). The goon reading, so likely the initial borrowing. Compare Wu 繪/绘 (⁶we). Etymology templates: {{der|ja|ltc|-}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|繪}} 繪 (MC hwajH), {{glink/ja|goon}} goon, {{cog|wuu|繪}} Wu 繪/绘 (⁶we) Head templates: {{ja-noun|え|hist=ゑ}} 絵(え) • (e) ^(←ゑ (we)?)
  1. picture, painting
    Sense id: en-絵-ja-noun-DEnGrJPJ
  2. drawing, sketch
    Sense id: en-絵-ja-noun-BjOkfLsb Categories (other): Japanese affixes, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese affixes: 32 4 18 46 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 35 3 11 51 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 16 3 8 73 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 16 3 9 72 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 24 6 19 51 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 0 10 90 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 17 3 8 72 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 11 89
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 絵空事 (esoragoto) (ruby: 絵空事(えそらごと)) (english: unrealistic fantasy, pipe dream), 絵の具 (enogu) (ruby: (), ()) (english: paint, coloring material), 絵文字 (emoji) (ruby: 絵文字(えもじ)) (english: pictograph) Related terms: 絵に描いた餅 (enikaitamochi) (english: pie in the sky, castle in the air; painted rice cakes) [literally], 画餅 (gabei), 絵に描いたよう (enikaitayō) (ruby: (), ()) (english: perfect example or representation of; as if painted) [literally], 絵になる (eninaru) (ruby: ()) (english: to be perfect for a painting; to turn into a painting) [literally]
Etymology number: 1

Character [Translingual]

  1. 絵 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火人一戈 (VFOMI), composition ⿰糹会) Wikipedia link: Shinjitai, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for 絵 meaning in All languages combined (10.2kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.