pen / pencil / writing brush / to write or compose / the strokes of Chinese characters / classifier for sums of money, deals / CL:支[zhi1],枝[zhi1]

= + : Brunhilde (bi) decided to try art for a change and constructs a brush (笔) in the space station (Ø3). She cuts off her long hair (毛) and attaches it to a bamboo stick (⺮) to make her brush (笔).

筆 character breakdown

bamboo / CL:棵[ke1],支[zhi1],根[gen1] / Kangxi radical 118

= 𠂉 + + : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is weaving a bamboo basket (竹) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He is using a key (𠂉), a dinosaur bone (丨) and a crowbar (亅) as basis structure and connects the three stays by weaving soft bamboo (竹) around them.
(arch. introductory particle) / then / and then

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a broad decorator's brush.

Yu the Great (yu) is painting in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). First she paints backgrounds with a decorator's brush (聿), then applies some details using a crayon (肀), and finally she discharges a capacitor (二) on the canvas for special effects.

Characters with 筆 as component

to drain / to strain / to decant

Words with 筆

writings / writing style
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
a faulty stroke in calligraphy or painting / a faulty expression in writing
writing brush / CL:枝[zhi1],管[guan3]
remuneration for literary or artistic work
to take up one's pen / to start to write
to have difficulty remembering how to write Chinese characters
to put down the pen / to stop writing
to lay down the pen and take up the sword (idiom) / to join the military (esp. of educated person)
falsification in writing / misrepresentation in written history / deliberate digression
to make one's living by writing
bristles lying down (brush movement in painting)
Death note (Japanese: デスノート), translation of cult manga series by author ŌBA Tsugumi 大場鶇|大场鸫[Da4 chang3 Dong1] (pen-name) and illustrator OBATA Takeshi 小畑健[Xiao3 tian2 Jian4]
to start writing or painting (lit. "wet the brush")
to put down the brush; to stop writing (or painting)
against the bristles (brush movement in painting)
my clumsy writing (humble expr.) / my humble pen
to serve as a counselor (idiom)

Sentences with 筆

筆 currently does not appear in any sentence.