Chinese Character Wiki

繪

huì

draw

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 會 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

會 sound component

會  Sound component

huì, kuài

  

to gather

Evolution

繪 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
繪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
繪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

绘 (繪) 

huì

draw, sketch, paint; to draw; to paint

Most common words with 繪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

描绘

to describe

绘画

drawing

绘

to draw

绘制

to draw

绘图

to draw

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.3019% of movies

2345th most common character in movies

1809th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

绘

Unicode

U+7E6A

Shuowen

“繪，會五采繡也。《虞書》曰：‘山龍華蟲作繪。’《論語》曰：‘繪事後素。’从糸，會聲。”


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