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)
simp. (铅笔)
anagram 筆鉛笔铅

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 鉛筆 (えんぴつ) (enpitsu, pencil), which was in turn a semantic readaptation of Chinese 鉛筆铅笔 (qiānbǐ, “pen made from lead powder”).

Pronunciation


Noun

鉛筆

  1. pencil; lead pencil (Classifier: )
  2. pen made from white lead, used to correct mistakes (Classifier: )

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Bouyei: yianfpif
  • Zhuang: yienzbit, yenzbiz

Japanese

鉛筆
Kanji in this term
えん
Grade: S
ひつ > ぴつ
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

Calque of English lead pencil

Pronunciation

Noun

鉛筆 (counter , hiragana えんぴつ, rōmaji enpitsu)

  1. a pencil (graphite writing-instrument)

Compounds

  • 鉛筆画

Descendants

  • Amis: impic
  • → Chinese: 鉛筆 (qiānbǐ)
    • Bouyei: yianfpif
    • Zhuang: yienzbit, yenzbiz
  • Korean: 연필 (yeonpil)
  • Vietnamese: (calque) bút chì

References

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

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

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

  1. Hanja form? of 연필 (pencil).
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