画 (畫) huà

1. huà noun painting; picture; drawing
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Art
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '畫'; Guoyu '畫' n 1; Kroll 2015 '畫' 2, p. 168; Unihan '畫'; XHZD '画' 2, p. 288)
2. huà verb to draw
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Art
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '畫'; Guoyu '畫' v 3; Kroll 2015 '畫' 2, p. 168; Unihan '畫'; XHZD '画' 1, p. 288)
3. huà noun a stroke in a Chinese character
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '畫' n 2; XHZD '画' 3, p. 288)
4. huà verb to delineate
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '畫' v 1; Kroll 2015 '畫' 1, p. 168; Unihan '畫'; XHZD '画' 4, p. 288)
5. huà verb to plan
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '畫' v 2; Kroll 2015 '畫' 2a, p. 168)
6. huà verb to sign
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: To sign one's name (Guoyu '畫' v 4; Kroll 2015 '畫' 3, p. 168)
7. huà verb to stop; to terminate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '畫' v 4)
8. huà adverb clearly
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '畫' adv)
9. huà proper noun Hua
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '畫' adv)

Contained in

• 画图(畫圖) to draw designs, maps etc; picture (e.g. of life in the city)
• 画蛇添足(畫蛇添足) to draw legs on a snake; to ruin the effect by adding something superfluous; to overdo it
• 摹画(摹畫) to describe
• 笔画(筆畫) stroke of a Chinese character
• 木刻版画(木刻版畫) a woodcut; woodblock printing
• 区画(區畫) subdivision
• 透视画法(透視畫法) perspective drawing
• 计画(計畫) to plan
• 连环画(連環畫) lianhuanhua (graphic novel)
• 勾画(勾畫) to sketch ; to describe in simple terms
• 画卷(畫卷) picture scroll
• 彩画(彩畫) a color painting
• 洋画儿(洋畫兒) children's game played with illustrated cards; pogs; menko (Japan)
• 意存笔先，画尽意在(意存筆先，畫盡意在) the idea is present before the first stroke of the brush, when the last stroke is placed the idea shines through
• 画地自限(畫地自限) to draw a line on the ground to keep within; to impose restrictions on oneself
• 绘画(繪畫) to draw; to paint
• 指手画脚(指手畫腳) to gesticulate
• 透视画(透視畫) perspective drawing
• 画影图形(畫影圖形) drawing of a wanted criminal
• 画插图者(畫插圖者) illustrator
• 书画(書畫) calligraphy
• 铅笔画(鉛筆畫) pencil drawing
• 漆画(漆畫) a picture created with lacquer
• 鬼画符(鬼畫符) undecipherable handwriting; scribblings; hypocritical talk
• 半途自画(半途自畫) to leave half finished
• 如画(如畫) picturesque
• 比画(比畫) to gesture; to gesticulate
• 画匠(畫匠) a painter; a decorator; a limner
• 画饼充饥(畫餅充飢) to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake; to feed on illusions
• 点画(點畫) the strokes of a Chinese character
• 画圆(畫圓) to draw a circle
• 画皮(畫皮) painted skin
• 画眉(畫眉) a kind of thrush ; to makeup eyebrows
• 乱画(亂畫) to doodle; graffito; to doodle
• 家庭计画(家庭計畫) family planning
• 木版画(木版畫) woodcut; wood engraving
• 画册(畫冊) a picture album
• 画帖(畫帖) drawing copybook
• 描画(描畫) to draw; to describe
• 画策(畫策) to plan

Also contained in

画坛 、 画室 、 凹凸画 、 计算机动画 、 漫画 、 诗画 、 扉画 、 益州名画录 、 书画家 、 画廊 、 画家

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Truncated for common words

• 卷10　志第5　禮儀五 Volume 10 Treatises 5: Rites 5 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 60
• 卷七十九　志第二十九: 　輿服二 Volume 79 Treatises 32: Carriages and Clothes 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 39
• 卷五十九　　　　志第四十九　　藝文三 Volume 59 Treatises 55: The Arts 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 29
• 第二回 Chapter 42 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 29
• 卷七十八　志第二十八: 　輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 28
• 第一回 Chapter 1 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 21
• 第二回 Chapter 5 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 19
• 卷二十五 志第十五 輿服 Volume 25 Treatises 15: Travel and Dress Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 18
• 卷二百〇七 志第一百六十 藝文六 Volume 207 Treatises 160: Arts and Literature 6 History of Song 宋史 — count: 17
• 卷一百四十九 志第一百〇二 輿服一 Volume 149 Treatises 102: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 16

Collocations

• 画地 (畫地) 不畫地 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《少儀》 Smaller Rules of Demeanour — count: 7
• 画方 (畫方) 左手畫方 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 功名第二十八 Chapter 28: Merit and Reputation — count: 4
• 画计 (畫計) 昔宮之奇為虞公畫計 — New Discussions 新語, 卷下　資質第七　至德第八　懷慮第九　本行第十　明誡第十一　思務第十二　Scroll 2 — count: 4
• 画制 (畫製) 錯儀畫制 — Guanzi 管子, 七法第六 Chapter 6: Seven Methods — count: 3
• 画翣 (畫翣) 畫翣二 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《喪大記》 The Greater Record of Mourning Rites — count: 3
• 画象 (畫象) 畫象成形 — Canon of Supreme Mystery 太玄經, Full Text — count: 3
• 画纯 (畫純) 畫純 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 顧命 Zhou Shu - Testamentary Charge — count: 3
• 朱画 (朱畫) 而朱畫其內 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 十過第十 Chapter 10: Ten Faults — count: 2
• 画反 (畫反) 被首為王畫反謀 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《淮南衡山列傳》 Biographies of Huainan and Hengshan — count: 2
• 善画 (善畫) 留侯善畫計筴 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《留侯世家》 House of Marquis of Liu — count: 2