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KANJI: PAINTINGA P R I L 3 , 2 0 1 8
TEACHING TUESDAY
The kanji for painting or picture, 絵, is a simplified version of a much more complicated Middle Chinese character 繪. The original kanji combined two radicals, 會 meaning to reduce or eliminate space, and 糸 which meant thread. Combined, they created the image of threads filling a frame to create a work of decoration. Eventually this came to mean “paint”, “picture”, “drawing”, and more, as well as being simplified down into the present Japanese version of the kanji, 絵.
Reading: え ay
Meaning: picture; drawing; painting; sketch絵
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