写意寫意 in English
- comfortable / enjoyable / relaxed
- to suggest (rather than depict in detail) / freehand style of Chinese painting, characterized by bold strokes rather than accurate details
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
写
These are the forms of 寫, the traditional character: 写 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
意
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 8 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).