HSK 3 · Verbs

画 huà “draw” in Chinese

Traditional 畫

What 画 means

  1. draw
  2. picture
  3. painting
  4. to paint
  5. to draw (a line)
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • stroke of a Chinese character
  • (calligraphy) horizontal stroke

How to say 画

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale画huà4th tone, falling

画 in a sentence

  1. 你知道这张画是谁画的吗？

    Nǐ zhīdao zhè zhāng huà shì shéi huà de ma?

    Do you know who painted this picture?

    Sentence #788660 from Tatoeba

  2. 他正在画一幅画。

    Tā zhèngzài huà yì fú huà.

    He’s drawing a picture.

    Sentence #405186 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我喜欢画画。

    Wǒ xǐhuan huà huà.

    I like drawing.

    Sentence #1884732 from Tatoeba

How 画 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 画 (huà) with each of its parts in a different colour
画huàto draw; to paint
  • 一one · yī
  • 田field · tián
  • 凵open box · kǎn

Memory aidSimplified from 畫, a brush marking out the borders of a field 田: to draw, a picture.

How to write 画

画 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

画 (huà) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 画 (huà). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 画

Words with 画

画家huàjiā · painter动画片dònghuàpiàn · animated film漫画mànhuà · comic画蛇添足huàshétiānzú · to spoil something by adding the unnecessary (lit. drawing legs on a snake)

More words: Common Verbs

关guān · to close过guo · particle for past experience (have done)过去guòqù · in the past花huā · flower换huàn · change见面jiànmiàn · meet/see somebody教jiāo · teach接jiē · connect

FAQs

画 (huà) means “draw” or “picture”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it huà: huà with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 画 is written 畫. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hua with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 画 from the suggestions. Typing hua into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
画 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.