huà, huá
cut, delimit, draw
Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 畫 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*gʷˤrek | hweak | huà | draw (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 63.9436% of movies
558th most common character in movies
522nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5283 |
Shuowen | “劃,錐刀曰劃。从刀,从畫,畫亦聲。” |
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