Pencil in Chinese (Mandarin): 铅笔 (qiānbǐ)
铅笔
qiānbǐ
pencil
- Simplified
- 铅笔
- Traditional
- 鉛筆
- Pinyin
- qiānbǐ
- Typed as
- qianbi
Use it in a sentence
铅笔要削尖。
鉛筆要削尖。
The pencil needs to be sharpened.
The characters in 铅笔
铅 / 鉛
Lead, the metal. 钅 (metal) is on the left.
10 strokes
笔 / 筆
Pen, brush. 竹 (bamboo) is on top, because brushes had bamboo handles.
10 strokes
铅笔 is a "lead pen". Pencils are not really lead inside: it is graphite. A pencil sharpener is 卷笔刀 (juǎnbǐdāo).
More examples with 铅笔
我用铅笔写字。
我用鉛筆寫字。
Wǒ yòng qiānbǐ xiě zì.
I write with a pencil.
我有三支铅笔。
我有三支鉛筆。
Wǒ yǒu sān zhī qiānbǐ.
I have three pencils.
How to write 铅笔 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
铅 10 strokes
笔 10 strokes
In Traditional characters:
鉛 13 strokes
筆 12 strokes
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