描

Translingual

Han character

描 (radical 64 手+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手廿田 (QTW), four-corner 5406₀)

1. copy, trace, sketch
2. depict

References

• KangXi: page 441, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12339
• Dae Jaweon: page 792, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1892, character 3
• Unihan data for U+63CF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

描 (Yale miu4)

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Japanese

Kanji

描 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: びょう (byō)
• Kun: えがく (egaku)

Compounds

• 描く

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Korean

Hanja

描 (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune-Reischauer myo, Yale myo)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

描 (pinyin dī (di1), dǐ (di3), miáo (miao2), shí (shi2), Wade-Giles ti¹, ti³, miao², shih²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

描 (miêu)