noun
Standard word for a wooden pencil. For mechanical pencils, シャープペンシル is more common.
鉛筆で名前を書いてください。
Please write your name with a pencil.
この鉛筆はよく折れる。
This pencil breaks easily.
Standard kanji spelling; high-frequency word.
Katakana spelling; it is search-only.
From Chinese 鉛筆 (qiānbǐ), literally 'lead brush/pen', referring to the graphite core.