畫 (waak6 waa6*2 waa6 | hua4) : draw; painting, picture

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畫

waak6 waa6*2 waa6

hua4

[1] [v] delineate; mark off; delimit
[2] [v] paint; draw;
[n] painting; picture; drawing
[3] [v] plan; design; [n] plan
[4] a stroke in Chinese writing

Default PoS:

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 12

Level: 2

Radical: 田 (#102)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

畫 / 画

Don't confuse with:
晝書盡

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 31st Jul 2009 02:31

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畫畫 waak6 waa6*2 hua4 hua4 = to draw a picture

畫圖 waak6 tou4 hua4 tu2 = draw; paint; picture; painting; drawing

畫面 waa6*2 min6*2 hua4 mian4 = display; screen

計畫 gai3 waak6 ji4 hua4 = plan (can also be 計劃)

電視畫面 din6 si6 waa6*2 min6*2 = television screen 粵

水彩畫 seoi2 coi2 waa6*2 = water-colour painting

版畫 baan2 waa6*2 = a print made from an engraved plate

油畫 jau4 waa6*2 you2 hua4 = oil painting

指手畫腳 zi2 sau2 waak6 goek3 zhi3 shou3 hua4 jiao3 = to gesticulate while talking; to have an animated conversation

畫報 waa6*2 bou3 hua4 bao4 = pictorial
See all 55 compounds (CantoDict reports 57 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 4 examples containing 畫

唔該畫個地圖畀我。粵
Please draw a map for me.

我們在黑板上畫一個正方形吧. 國
Let's draw a square on the blackboard.

她用橙色的蠟筆來畫太陽國
She uses an orange crayon to draw the sun.
[來 here means "in order to" or "to". Marked as unsure: Can an editor please fix the jyutping?]

呢度有我份漫畫作品粵
Here's some of the manga I've produced.
[Lit. Here have me [counter] manga works. (A more literal translation of the meaning would be "here are some of my manga works" but that doesn't read too well in English.)]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 畫
Unicode code for this character: U+756b (off-site link)

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