写 (寫) xiě

1. xiě verb to write
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Writing
   Notes: For example, 白纸写黑字 'to write black characters on white paper [to clearly document the matter]' (Guoyu '寫' v 2; Kroll 2015 '寫' 3b, p. 505; Suyu. p. 22; Unihan '寫'; XHZD '写' 1, p. 829)
2. xiě noun writing
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (XHZD '写' 2, p. 829)
3. xiě verb to move; to shift; to place
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '寫' v 1; Kroll 2015 '寫' 1, p. 505)
4. xiě verb to pour out; to vent; to confess
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '寫' v 6; Kroll 2015 '寫' 2, p. 505)
5. xiě verb to copy; to transcribe
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 抄录 (Guoyu '寫' v 4; Kroll 2015 '寫' 3, p. 505)
6. xiě verb to resemble; to seem like
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '寫' 3c, p. 505)
7. xiè verb to remove
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As a variant of 卸 (Guoyu '寫' xiè v; Kroll 2015 '寫' xiè, p. 505)
8. xiě verb to agree upon
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 订约 (Guoyu '寫' v 5)
9. xiě verb to compose; to describe
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Writing
   Notes: (Guoyu '寫' v 3; Unihan '寫'; XHZD '写' 3, p. 829)
10. xiě verb to draw; to sketch
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '寫' 3a, p. 505; Unihan '寫'; XHZD '写' 4, p. 829)

Contained in

• 摹写(摹寫) to depict; to portray; to imitate; to copy
• 描写(描寫) to describe; to depict; to portray
• 写本(寫本) manuscript; handwritten copy
• 小写(小寫) lowercase
• 轻描淡写(輕描淡寫) to sketch in light shades; to play down; to deemphasize
• 写生(寫生) to sketch from nature; to do a still life drawing
• 转写(轉寫) to transmit; to pass on written message ; transliterate
• 简写本(簡寫本) abridged edition
• 书写不能症(書寫不能症) agraphia
• 缩写(縮寫) abbreviation
• 复写(複寫) to duplicate; to carbon copy
• 手写识别(手寫識別) handwriting recognition
• 小写字母(小寫字母) lowercase letters
• 刻写(刻寫) to inscribe
• 写真(寫真) to paint a portrait ; a portrait ; to describe accurately ; photography
• 涂写(塗寫) to daub; to scribble (graffiti)
• 可擦写可编程只读存储器(可擦寫可編程只讀存儲器) EPROM (erasable programmable read-only memory)
• 写信(寫信) to write a letter
• 大小写(大小寫) case
• 撰写(撰寫) to write; to compose
• 写下(寫下) to write down
• 写真集(寫真集) photobook , generally sexy portraits of an actress or model
• 改写(改寫) to revise; to edit
• 大写字母(大寫字母) capital letters; uppercase letters
• 手写(手寫) to write by hand
• 写手(寫手) person who writes articles; scribe; copyist; a talented writer of articles or of calligraphy
• 听写(聽寫) to take dictation
• 题写(題寫) to create a work of calligraphy for display in a prominent place
• 写字(寫字) to write characters
• 写意画(寫意畫) freehand drawing or painting in traditional Chinese style
• 大写锁定(大寫鎖定) caps lock
• 拼写(拼寫) to spell; to transliterate
• 抄写(抄寫) to copy; to transcribe
• 写字楼(寫字樓) office building
• 缩写词(縮寫詞) abbreviation
• 临写(臨寫) to copy (a model of calligraphy or painting)
• 誊写(謄寫) to transcribe; to make a fair copy
• 威利转写(威利轉寫) Wylie transliteration
• 读写能力(讀寫能力) literacy
• 时写时辍(時寫時輟) to write for a bit then give up; to write in fits and starts
• 非写实(非寫實) nonrepresentational
• 简写(簡寫) to simplify ; to write in simplified characters
• 草写(草寫) to write in cursive script
• 侧写(側寫) to profile; profile; (offender) profiling
• 复写纸(複寫紙) carbon paper
• 编写(編寫) to compile

Also contained in

白纸写黑字 、 写法 、 敦煌写本 、 书写板 、 正写法

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 第三十九回 Chapter 39 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 22
• 第四十五回 Chapter 45 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 19
• 卷八十三　志第三十三: 　選舉三 Volume 83 Treatises 36: Selection of Officials 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 17
• 第七回 Chapter 7 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 15
• 第二回 Chapter 37 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 12
• 第三十回 Chapter 30 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 12
• 第二回 Chapter 70 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 12
• 第三十三回 Chapter 33 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 12
• 第十八回 Chapter 18 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 12
• 第二回 Chapter 50 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 12

Collocations

• 写书 (寫書) 置寫書之官 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷三十 兿文志 Volume 30: Treatise on Literature — count: 4
• 心写 (心寫) 我心寫兮 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧南有嘉魚之什‧蓼蕭 Minor odes of the kingdom - Nan You Jia Yu Zhi Shen - Liao Xiao — count: 4
• 输写 (輸寫) 吏見者皆輸寫心腹 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十六 趙尹韓張兩王傳 Volume 76: Zhao, Yin, Han, Zhang and two Wangs — count: 3
• 写一 (寫一) 宜寫一通 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五十二 崔駰列傳 Volume 52: Biography of Cui Yin — count: 3
• 用写 (用寫) 編用寫書 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷五十一 賈鄒枚路傳 Volume 51: Jia, Zou, Mei and Lu — count: 2
• 布写 (布寫) 肸蠁布寫 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《司馬相如列傳》 Biography of Sima Xiangru — count: 2
• 尽写 (儘寫) 盡寫其食 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十九　脩務訓 Chapter 19: Cultivation of Effort — count: 2
• 写刘 (寫劉) 庾車騎寫劉孔才所論以示八座 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二十一 魏書二十一 王衛二劉傅傳 Volume 21: Book of Wei 21 - Biographies of Wang, Wei, and the two Lius — count: 2
• 写传 (寫傳) 篤以箋記紙不可寫傳 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷六十四 吳延史盧趙列傳 Volume 64: Biographies of Wu, Yan, Shi, Lu, Zhao — count: 2
• 写凤 (寫鳳) 寫鳳之音 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷三　天文訓 Chapter 3: Celestial Phenomena — count: 2