描写 miáoxiě▶ mô tả

Stroke order

描写 is written in 16 strokes across 2 characters.

• 描 — 11 strokes
• 写 — 5 strokes

Senses

1. to describe; to depict; to portray
2. depiction; portrayal

Related words

• 写作chữ viết, việc viết
• 描绘mô tả; khắc họa
• 写viết

描写 is pronounced miáoxiě and means “mô tả”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 描写 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.