Illustration: On a home's veranda, an artist sketches a sleeping cat sprawled beside an overturned sewing basket. The actual cat has one paw hooked through a loose loop of thread, and the open sketchbook clearly reproduces that same curled paw, tipped basket, and trailing thread.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

描びょう写しゃ

byousha

to depict, to describe

Example sentences

その美うつくしさを言葉ことばでは描写びょうしゃできない。
Words cannot describe the beauty.
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彼かれは地震じしんの後あとの混乱こんらんを生々なまなましく描写びょうしゃした。
He vividly depicted the confusion following the earthquake.
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彼かれはそこで起おきたことを正確せいかくに描写びょうしゃした。
He accurately described what happened there.
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Kanji in 描写

描sketch; composeOnビョウKunえがく・かく
写copy; be photographedOnシャ・ジャKunうつす・うつる・うつ-

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