画
huà HSK2

a painting

画 畫 huà
picture noun
picture; painting; drawing; image

我喜欢看着像照片的画。

wǒ xǐ​huan kàn zhe xiàng zhào​piàn de huà.

I like paintings that look like photographs.

to draw verb
to draw; to paint; to depict; to decorate with paintings or pictures

我要你画一棵树。

wǒ yào nǐ huà yī kē shù.

I want you to draw a tree.

画一个黄色的大球和一个红色的小球。

huà yī​ge huáng​sè de dà qiú hé yī​ge hóng​sè de xiǎo qiú.

Draw a big yellow ball and a small red ball.

to mark nounverb
to mark; to draw a line or sign; to sign or initial a document, as in 画押 huà​yā
stroke
a stroke in a Chinese character; as a measure word, used to count the number of strokes in a character
to plan
(bound form) to plan; to design; to scheme, as in 计划 jì​huà
to divide
to divide; to partition; to set a boundary; to limit or stop oneself
to gesture
to gesture with one's hands; to make movements to help convey meaning, as in 指手画脚 zhǐ​shǒu​huà​jiǎo
surname
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
883rd most common 197.7 per million
Movie subtitles
756th most common 168.2 per million appears in 38% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
113.1 per million appears in 21% of films
Written text
93.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
畫
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+753B

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