huà
a painting
Pictograph of a hand holding a writing utensil (聿) and drawing something. The 聿 component was deleted for simplification.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
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