畫

See also 画, and 劃

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 聿 (“pencil”) + 田 (“field”)

Han character

畫 (radical 102 田+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中土田一 (LGWM), four-corner 5010₆)

1. delineate, painting, picture, drawing
2. draw

Derived terms

• 晝, 劃, 嫿

References

• KangXi: page 763, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21859
• Dae Jaweon: page 1172, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2544, character 2
• Unihan data for U+756B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

畫 (simplified 画, Yale wa2, waak6)

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Japanese

Kanji

畫

Readings

• On: かく (kaku), が (ga), かい (kai)
• Kun: かぎる (kagiru), はかる (hakaru), はかりごと (hakarigoto), かく (kaku)

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Korean

Hanja

畫 (hangeul 화, 획, revised hwa, hoek, McCune-Reischauer hwa, hoek, Yale hwa, hoyk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

畫 (simplified 画, pinyin huà (hua4), shē (she1), Wade-Giles hua⁴, she¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

畫 (họa, hoạ, hoạch, vạch, vệt, dạch, vệch)