畫
huà HSK2

a painting

画 (畫) huà
painting noun
a picture, painting, or drawing

墙上挂着一幅精美的画。

qiáng shàng guà zhe yī fú jīng​měi de huà.

An exquisite painting is hanging on the wall.

draw verb
to draw or paint

他在纸上画了一只猫。

tā zài zhǐ shàng huà le yī zhī māo.

He drew a cat on the paper.

mark verb
to draw a line (variant of 划 huà/划 huá)

请在生词下面画一条线。

qǐng zài shēng​cí xià​miàn huà yī tiáo xiàn.

Please underline the new words.

stroke measure word
a stroke of a Chinese character or a horizontal calligraphy stroke

这个汉字一共有几画？

zhè gè hàn​zì yī​gòng yǒu jǐ huà?

How many strokes does this Chinese character have in total?

Cross-References

Has variant

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
Simplified
画
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+756B

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