劃
huáhuà HSK4

cut, delimit, draw

划 (劃) huá frequency
cut verb
to cut, slash, or scratch into the surface of something

别在墙上乱划。

bié zài qiáng shàng luàn huá.

Don't scrawl on the walls.

strike match verb
to strike a match to ignite it

他在黑暗中划着了火柴。

tā zài hēi'àn zhōng huá zháo le huǒ​chái.

He struck a match in the dark.

划 (劃) huà
delimit verb
to partition, assign, transfer, or plan for a specific purpose

政府把这片区域划为经济开发区。

zhèng​fǔ bǎ zhè piàn qū​yù huà wéi jīng​jì kāi​fā​qū.

The government designated this area as an economic development zone.

draw verb
to draw a line or form the stroke of a Chinese character

这个汉字的最后一划应该是点。

zhè gè hàn​zì de zuì​hòu yī huà yīng​gāi shì diǎn.

The last stroke of this Chinese character should be a dot.

Frequency
Character
Written text
522nd most common 406.4 per million
Movie subtitles
558th most common 253.4 per million appears in 64% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
25.3 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
37.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Simplified
划
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+5283

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)