diff --git a/moshi/src/main/java/com/squareup/moshi/JsonReader.java b/moshi/src/main/java/com/squareup/moshi/JsonReader.java
index ecd95cb..76e0531 100644
--- a/moshi/src/main/java/com/squareup/moshi/JsonReader.java
+++ b/moshi/src/main/java/com/squareup/moshi/JsonReader.java
@@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ public abstract class JsonReader implements Closeable {
    *
    * @throws JsonDataException if the next token is not a literal value, if a JSON object has a
    * duplicate key.
+   * @see JsonWriter#jsonValue(Object)
    */
   public final @Nullable Object readJsonValue() throws IOException {
     switch (peek()) {
diff --git a/moshi/src/main/java/com/squareup/moshi/JsonWriter.java b/moshi/src/main/java/com/squareup/moshi/JsonWriter.java
index f5d4978..af39020 100644
--- a/moshi/src/main/java/com/squareup/moshi/JsonWriter.java
+++ b/moshi/src/main/java/com/squareup/moshi/JsonWriter.java
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.Flushable;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
 import javax.annotation.CheckReturnValue;
 import javax.annotation.Nullable;
 import okio.BufferedSink;
@@ -386,6 +388,58 @@ public abstract class JsonWriter implements Closeable, Flushable {
   @CheckReturnValue
   public abstract BufferedSink valueSink() throws IOException;
 
+  /**
+   * Encodes the value which may be a string, number, boolean, null, map, or list.
+   *
+   * @return this writer.
+   * @see JsonReader#readJsonValue()
+   */
+  public final JsonWriter jsonValue(@Nullable Object value) throws IOException {
+    if (value instanceof Map<?, ?>) {
+      beginObject();
+      for (Map.Entry<?, ?> entry : ((Map<?, ?>) value).entrySet()) {
+        Object key = entry.getKey();
+        if (!(key instanceof String)) {
+          throw new IllegalArgumentException(key == null
+              ? "Map keys must be non-null"
+              : "Map keys must be of type String: " + key.getClass().getName());
+        }
+        name(((String) key));
+        jsonValue(entry.getValue());
+      }
+      endObject();
+
+    } else if (value instanceof List<?>) {
+      beginArray();
+      for (Object element : ((List<?>) value)) {
+        jsonValue(element);
+      }
+      endArray();
+
+    } else if (value instanceof String) {
+      value(((String) value));
+
+    } else if (value instanceof Boolean) {
+      value(((Boolean) value).booleanValue());
+
+    } else if (value instanceof Double) {
+      value(((Double) value).doubleValue());
+
+    } else if (value instanceof Long) {
+      value(((Long) value).longValue());
+
+    } else if (value instanceof Number) {
+      value(((Number) value));
+
+    } else if (value == null) {
+      nullValue();
+
+    } else {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unsupported type: " + value.getClass().getName());
+    }
+    return this;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Changes the writer to treat the next value as a string name. This is useful for map adapters so
    * that arbitrary type adapters can use {@link #value} to write a name value.
diff --git a/moshi/src/test/java/com/squareup/moshi/JsonWriterTest.java b/moshi/src/test/java/com/squareup/moshi/JsonWriterTest.java
index 6fcfcd5..692ea51 100644
--- a/moshi/src/test/java/com/squareup/moshi/JsonWriterTest.java
+++ b/moshi/src/test/java/com/squareup/moshi/JsonWriterTest.java
@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@ package com.squareup.moshi;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.math.BigDecimal;
 import java.math.BigInteger;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
 import okio.BufferedSink;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
@@ -742,4 +746,72 @@ public final class JsonWriterTest {
     assertThat(factory.json()).isEqualTo("{\"a\":1.0}");
     sink.close();
   }
+
+  @Test public void jsonValueTypes() throws IOException {
+    JsonWriter writer = factory.newWriter();
+    writer.setSerializeNulls(true);
+
+    writer.beginArray();
+    writer.jsonValue(null);
+    writer.jsonValue(1.1d);
+    writer.jsonValue(1L);
+    writer.jsonValue(1);
+    writer.jsonValue(true);
+    writer.jsonValue("one");
+    writer.jsonValue(Collections.emptyList());
+    writer.jsonValue(Arrays.asList(1, 2, null, 3));
+    writer.jsonValue(Collections.emptyMap());
+    Map<String, Object> map = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+    map.put("one", "uno");
+    map.put("two", null);
+    writer.jsonValue(map);
+    writer.endArray();
+
+    assertThat(factory.json()).isEqualTo("["
+        + "null,"
+        + "1.1,"
+        + "1,"
+        + "1,"
+        + "true,"
+        + "\"one\","
+        + "[],"
+        + "[1,2,null,3],"
+        + "{},"
+        + "{\"one\":\"uno\",\"two\":null}"
+        + "]");
+  }
+
+  @Test public void jsonValueIllegalTypes() throws IOException {
+    try {
+      factory.newWriter().jsonValue(new Object());
+      fail();
+    } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+      assertThat(e).hasMessage("Unsupported type: java.lang.Object");
+    }
+
+    try {
+      factory.newWriter().jsonValue('1');
+      fail();
+    } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+      assertThat(e).hasMessage("Unsupported type: java.lang.Character");
+    }
+
+    Map<Integer, String> mapWrongKey = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+    mapWrongKey.put(1, "one");
+    try {
+      factory.newWriter().jsonValue(mapWrongKey);
+      fail();
+    } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+      assertThat(e).hasMessage("Map keys must be of type String: java.lang.Integer");
+    }
+
+    Map<String, String> mapNullKey = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+    mapNullKey.put(null, "one");
+    try {
+      factory.newWriter().jsonValue(mapNullKey);
+      fail();
+    } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+      assertThat(e).hasMessage("Map keys must be non-null");
+    }
+  }
 }