画

See also 畫

Translingual

Stroke order
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Etymology

same as 畫

Han character

画 (radical 102 田+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一山田 (MUW))

  1. a painting, picture, drawing
  2. to draw

References

  • KangXi: page 759, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21739
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1169, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2530, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+753B
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Cantonese

Hanzi

画 (traditional 畫, Yale wa2, waak6)

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Japanese

Kanji

画 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

画 (hiragana かく, romaji kaku)

  1. stroke (of a pen, in a character)
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Korean

Hanja

画
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 화 (획) (revised: hwa (hoek), McCune-Reischauer: hwa (hoek), Yale: hwa (hoyk))
  • Name (hangeul): 그림 화()

Usage notes

This shape is not used. Corresponds to 畵.

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

Hanzi

画 (traditional 畫, pinyin huà (hua4), zhèn (zhen4), Wade-Giles hua4, chen4)

Verb

画 (simplified, Pinyin huà, traditional 畫)

  1. to write, to draw, to paint

Noun

画 (simplified, Pinyin huà, traditional 畫)

  1. paint, picture

Compounds

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