Chinese Character Wiki
画

huà

a painting

Pictograph of a hand holding a writing utensil (聿) and drawing something. The 聿 component was deleted for simplification.

Components
聿 deleted component

聿  Deleted component

yù

  

writing brush

◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a picture being drawn.

Evolution

画 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
画 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
画 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
画 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
画 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

画 (畫) 

huà

delineate, painting, picture, drawing; draw; to draw; picture; painting; CL:幅[fú],張|张[zhāng]; classifier for paintings etc; variant of 劃|划[huà]

Most common words with 画
Freq.
Word
Meaning

画

to draw

画面

scene

漫画

caricature

画家

painter

动画

animation

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 38.2028% of movies

756th most common character in movies

883rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

畫

Unicode

U+753B


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