Chinese Character Wiki
畫

huà

a painting

Pictograph of a hand holding a writing utensil (聿) and drawing something.

Components
聿 iconic component

聿  Iconic component

yù

  

writing brush

◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a picture being drawn.

Evolution

畫 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
畫 Regular script Modern

Regular 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 畫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

画

to draw

画面

scene

漫画

caricature

画家

painter

动画

animation

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)

劃

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

劃

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C-gʷˤrek-s

hweaH

huà

drawing (n.)

*gʷˤrek

hweak

huà

draw (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 38.2028% of movies

756th most common character in movies

883rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

画

Unicode

U+756B

Shuowen

“畫，界也。象田四界，聿所以畫之。，古文畫省。亦古文畫。”


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