铅笔

qiānbǐ

(lead) pencil

noun HSK 3.0 · Band 3 trad. 鉛筆

Watch it being written

Every character draws itself, stroke by stroke. Then grab the brush: trace it yourself and hear the word when you finish.

Build with these blocks

Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.

See it in sentences

他在用铅笔写字。

He is writing with a pencil.

我的铅笔在书包里。

My pencil is in the schoolbag.