水筆

Chinese

water; river
pen; pencil; writing brush
pen; pencil; writing brush; to write or compose; the strokes of Chinese characters
 
trad. (水筆)
simp. (水笔)

Pronunciation


Note: shuǐrbǐ - "gel pen".

Noun

水筆

  1. stiff-haired writing brush or watercolour paintbrush
  2. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese, Gan, dialectal Hakka, Jin, Pinghua, Quanzhou Hokkien, Hainanese, Leizhou Min, Xiang) fountain pen
  3. (dialectal Mandarin, Hakka, Northern Min, Eastern Min, Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) writing brush; inkbrush
  4. gel pen

Synonyms

References

  • 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “水笔”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 596.