画 · huà
a painting, picture, drawing; to draw
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
a painting, picture, drawing; to draw
- Mandarin
- huà
- Cantonese
- waak6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 画 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 획
- Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+753B
- Radical
- 田 · 102
- Strokes
- 8 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
8 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 画
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Sentence context · 1 matches
我知道他会画画。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #401963 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · Text editors: GlossaMatik · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #401960 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- huà
- kCantonese
- waak6
- kDefinition
- a painting, picture, drawing; to draw
- kTotalStrokes
- 8
- kRSUnicode
- 102.3 1.7
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+753B U+756B
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+753B
- kTGH
- 2013:1036
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- huà 0484.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- huà 143.090
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- huà(493)