描 (miáo)
to describe; to trace; to copy
How 描 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Traditional
- 描
- Simplified
- 描 (unchanged)
Components
- 扌 hand
- 艹 grass
- 田 field
Common words using 描
- 掃描 sǎomiáo
- to scan
- 描繪 miáohuì
- to describe; to portray
- 描述 miáoshù
- to describe; description
- 描寫 miáoxiě
- to describe; to depict; to portray
- 素描 sùmiáo
- sketch
- 輕描淡寫 qīngmiáodànxiě
- to sketch in light shades; to play down; to deemphasize (idiom)
- 掃描儀 sǎomiáoyí
- scanner (device)
- 掃描器 sǎomiáoqì
- scanner
- 描圖 miáotú
- to trace
- 描摹 miáomó
- to describe; to portray
- 描畫 miáohuà
- to draw; to describe
- 描紅 miáohóng
- to trace over red characters (as a method of learning to write)
描 in a sentence
請描述一下嫌犯的長相。
Qǐng miáoshù yíxià xiánfàn de zhǎngxiàng.
“Please describe what the suspect looks like.”
How common is 描?
描 is the 1,244th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 92.3% of all running text.
Characters that appear with 描
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