(lead) pencil; CL:支[zhi1],枝[zhi1],桿|杆[gan3]

(formal) (honorific) your writing; your handwriting; pen; calligraphy brush; a large sum of (money)

fountain pen; CL:支[zhi1]

chalk; CL:支[zhi1],段[duan4]

crayon (wax type)

painting brush

sth written or painted in one's own hand; (of a writer, calligrapher or painter) skill; style; hand; (fig.) style shown in spending money, handling business etc; scale

to put pen to paper

abbr. of 五筆字型|五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983

in one's own handwriting

to write on behalf of sb; to ghostwrite

foreshadowing (literary device); foretaste of material to come (in an essay or story)

to write freely; to express oneself as one pleases

light pen

superfluous words (in writing); superfluous strokes (in calligraphy)

writing up of official or judicial documents; pettifoggery

to put pen to paper; to start writing or painting

writing brush

talented, gifted or ingenious writing

to retire from writing or drawing

gongbi, traditional Chinese painting method characterized by meticulous brush technique and detailed description

to start learning as a poet; to write one's first (poem, essay etc)

to write; to do the actual writing

against the bristles (brush movement in painting)

my clumsy writing (humble expr.); my humble pen

to take up one's pen; to start to write

to put down the brush; to stop writing (or painting)

writings; writing style

falsification in writing; misrepresentation in written history; deliberate digression

brush dipped in red ink (used in former times for writing official documents, grading papers etc)

bristles lying down (brush movement in painting)

to make one's living by writing

writing brush; CL:枝[zhi1],管[guan3]

to start writing or painting (lit. "wet the brush")

remuneration for literary or artistic work

to stop one's pen; to break off writing; final remarks (at the end of a book or article)

electrician's test light; voltage tester

a straightforward honest account

eyebrow pencil (cosmetics)

to put pen to paper

generic term for hard writing instruments such as quill pens, fountain pens, ball pens and pencils, as opposed to writing brushes

lit. divine pen; fig. outstanding writing

to hold the pen; to do the actual writing

vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)

words written on one’s deathbed; an artist's final work; swansong

to put pen to paper; to start to write or draw

a faulty stroke in calligraphy or painting; a faulty expression in writing

to stop writing or painting; to leave off writing midway

to wield the pen; to write