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

• 画幡(畫幡) a painting scroll; a vertical scroll painting
• 宣传画(宣傳畫) propaganda poster; advertising hoarding
• 笔画检字(筆畫檢字) character index by stroke
• 画蛇着足(畫蛇著足) to draw legs on a snake; to ruin the effect by adding something superfluous; to overdo it
• 下画线(下畫線) underline
• 画插图者(畫插圖者) illustrator
• 鬼画符(鬼畫符) undecipherable handwriting; scribblings; hypocritical talk
• 比画(比畫) to gesture; to gesticulate
• 铅笔画(鉛筆畫) pencil drawing
• 写意画(寫意畫) freehand drawing or painting in traditional Chinese style
• 画地为牢(畫地為牢) to be confined within a circle drawn on the ground
• 黏土动画(黏土動畫) clay animation; Claymation
• 木刻版画(木刻版畫) a woodcut; woodblock printing
• 画工(畫工) a painter; a decorator
• 透视画法(透視畫法) perspective drawing
• 绘画(繪畫) to draw; to paint
• 雕梁画栋(雕梁畫棟) a richly ornamented building
• 照猫画虎(照貓畫虎) to see a cat and draw a tiger; uninspired imitation
• 区画(區畫) subdivision
• 画面(畫面) a picture; a picture frame; a scene ; face cutting
• 画饼充饥(畫餅充飢) to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake; to feed on illusions
• 自画像(自畫像) self-portrait
• 家庭计画(家庭計畫) family planning
• 画龙点睛(畫龍點睛) to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes
• 画荻教子(畫荻教子) to write on the sand with reeds while teaching one's son
• 画眉(畫眉) a kind of thrush ; to makeup eyebrows
• 笔画(筆畫) stroke of a Chinese character
• 连环画(連環畫) lianhuanhua (graphic novel)
• 琴棋书画(琴棋書畫) the four arts (zither, Go, calligraphy, painting); the accomplishments of a well-educated person
• 画框(畫框) picture frame
• 书画毡(書畫氈) felt desk pad
• 刻画(刻畫) to portray
• 画等号(畫等號) to equate; to consider (two things) to be equivalent
• 计画(計畫) to plan
• 年画儿(年畫兒) New Year (Spring Festival) picture
• 一笔画(一筆畫) draw in a single stroke
• 画展(畫展) art exhibition
• 画十字(畫十字) to make the sign of the cross; to make a cross (on paper)
• 画布(畫布) canvas
• 画皮(畫皮) painted skin

Also contained in

动画 、 依样画葫芦 、 凹凸画 、 图画 、 画师 、 画理 、 历代名画记 、 国画 、 中国画 、 画坛 、 扉画

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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
• 第二回 Chapter 42 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 29
• 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
• 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
• 卷二十四　　　　志第十四　　　車服 Volume 24 Treatises 15: Carraiges and Attire New Book of Tang 新唐書 — 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
• 画纯 (畫純) 畫純 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 顧命 Zhou Shu - Testamentary Charge — 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
• 画筴 (畫筴) 客有為周君畫筴者 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 外儲說左上第三十二 Chapter 32: A Collection of Sayings III — count: 2
• 画邑 (畫邑) 環畫邑三十里無入 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《田單列傳》 Biography of Tian Dan — count: 2
• 画缋 (畫繢) 畫繢之事 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 冬官考工記 第六 6. Office of Winter and Inspection Records — count: 2