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畫

畫

See also: 画, 劃, and 划

Translingual

Shinjitai 画
Simplified 画
Traditional 畫

Han character

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

Derived terms

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

Chinese

trad. 畫
simp. 画

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 畫
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (畫) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
畫 *ɡʷreːɡs, *ɡʷreːɡ
澅 *ɡʷreːɡs
繣 *ɡʷreːɡs, *qʰʷreːɡ
劃 *qʰʷreːɡ, *ɡʷreːɡ
嫿 *ɡʷreːɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 聿 ‎(“pen brush”) + 田 ‎(“field”).

Pronunciation 1

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 畫
Mandarin Beijing /xua⁵¹/
Harbin /xua²⁴/ 筆～兒
/xua⁵³/ 年～兒
Tianjin /xuɑ⁵³/
Jinan /xua²¹/
Qingdao /xua⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xua³¹²/
Xi'an /xua⁴⁴/
Xining /xua²¹³/
Yinchuan /xua¹³/
Lanzhou /xua¹³/
Ürümqi /xua²¹³/
Wuhan /xua³⁵/
Chengdu /xua¹³/
Guiyang /xua²¹³/
Kunming /xua̠²¹²/
Nanjing /xuɑ⁴⁴/
Hefei /xua⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /xua⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xuɑ³⁵/
Hohhot /xua⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦo²³/
/ɦua²³/
Suzhou /ɦo³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦuɑ¹³/
Wenzhou /ɦo²²/
Hui Shexian /xua²²/
/ua²²/
Tunxi /xuːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /fa⁵⁵/
/fa¹¹/
Xiangtan /ɦuɒ²¹/
Gan Nanchang /fɑ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /fa⁵³/
Taoyuan /fɑ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wa²²/ 動
/wa³⁵/ 名
Nanning /wa³³/
Hong Kong /wa²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hua²²/
/ue²²/
/ui²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uɑ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ua⁴²/ 動
/xua⁴⁴/ 名
Shantou (Min Nan) /ue³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ue²³/
Rime
Character 畫
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 麥 (120)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 胡麥切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠwɛk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷᵚæk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɐk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwəɨjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɣwæk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣwæk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huó
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 畫
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huà
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwɛk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷˤrek/
English draw (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 畫
Reading # 2/2
No. 5335
Phonetic
component		 畫
Rime
group		 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 獲
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷreːɡ/

Definitions

畫

  1. to write; to draw; to paint
  2. to divide by a line
  3. Alternative form of 劃／划 (huà, “to devise”).
  4. stroke of Chinese character

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 畫
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 佳 (32)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 胡卦切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠuɛH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷᵚæH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwaɨjH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuɛH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣwaiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣwaiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huà
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 畫
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huà
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwɛH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C-ɡʷˤrek-s/
English drawing (n.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 畫
Reading # 1/2
No. 5330
Phonetic
component		 畫
Rime
group		 賜
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 畫
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷreːɡs/

Definitions

畫

  1. drawing; painting; picture

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

畫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 画)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

畫 (hoạ, hoạch, vạch, vệt, dạch, vệch)

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