Entry
  1. Noun

    one stroke (of a brush)

    彼女に一筆書いてみたらどうですか。
    Why don't you drop her a line?
  2. a few lines (of writing); note; short letter; (dropping) a line

  3. writing in one go (without stopping to apply more ink to the brush)

  4. parcel (of land)

  5. same handwriting

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

one, one radical (no.1)

Kun
ひと-ひと.つ
On
イチイツ
Strokes
1
Taught
Grade 1
JLPT
N5
Frequency
2 of 2500
Radical
one
WaniKani
Level 1

Built from

Used in names as

かずいっいるかつかづてんはじめひとつまこと

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
4-1-4SKIP code
0a1.1The Kanji Dictionary
1000.0Four corner code
3072deroo
4e00Unicode hex code
1-16-76JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1New Nelson (John Haig)
3341New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4148Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2105Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2850Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1Morohashi
1A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
2Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1sakade
1Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1henshall3
1Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1crowley
1Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1.Abusy_people
1Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
yi1Pinyin reading
ilKorean reading
n5JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
1WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

writing brush, writing, painting brush, handwriting

Kun
ふで
On
ヒツ
Strokes
12
Taught
Grade 3
JLPT
N2
Frequency
1132 of 2500
Radical
bamboo
WaniKani
Level 26

Built from

Used in names as

はじめ

Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
2-6-6SKIP code
6f6.1The Kanji Dictionary
8850.7Four corner code
2355deroo
7b46Unicode hex code
1-41-14JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3397Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4288New Nelson (John Haig)
2677New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3317Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1718Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2335Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
943Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1014Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
940A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1769Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
69Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
25987Morohashi
569A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
130Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
130Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
701sakade
794Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
400henshall3
410Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
355Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1481Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
952Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
bi3Pinyin reading
pilKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
26WaniKani level