HSK 3.0 Level 3 · School

画家 huàjiā “painter” in Chinese

Traditional 畫家

What 画家 means

  1. painter
  2. artist

Measure word 个 gè · 一个画家 yí ge huàjiā

How to say 画家

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale画huà4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale家jiā1st tone, high and level

画家 in a sentence

  1. 毕加索是一个有名的画家。

    Bìjiāsuǒ shì yí ge yǒumíng de huàjiā.

    Picasso is a famous artist.

    Sentence #488150 from Tatoeba

  2. 他是个画家，但他不会画国画。

    Tā shì ge huàjiā, dàn tā bú huì huà guóhuà.

    He’s a painter, but he doesn’t do traditional Chinese painting.

    Sentence #1490534 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 许多著名的画家居住在澳洲。

    Xǔduō zhùmíng de huàjiā jūzhù zài Àozhōu.

    Many famous artists live in Australia.

    Sentence #9433032 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 画家 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.

The character 家 (jiā) with each of its parts in a different colour
家jiāhome
  • 宀roof · miánMeaning part
  • 豕pig · shǐSound part

宀 hints at the meaning (roof); 豕 (shǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiā.

Memory aidA pig 豕 under a roof 宀: a home, a family.

How to write 画家

画 8 strokes · 家 10 strokes

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

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

Words related to 画家

Words with 画

画huà · draw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)

Words with 家

家jiā · home家人jiārén · family member大家dàjiā · everyone国家guójiā · country搬家bānjiā · to move house作家zuòjiā · writer家具jiājù · furniture家庭jiātíng · family家务jiāwù · household duties家乡jiāxiāng · hometown

More words: School & Work

难题nántí · difficult problem放假fàngjià · to have a holiday初中chūzhōng · junior high school放学fàngxué · to finish school (for the day)笔记bǐjì · notes休假xiūjià · to take leave班级bānjí · class (of students)课本kèběn · textbook

FAQs

画家 (huàjiā) means “painter” or “artist”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it huàjiā: huà with a 4th tone, then jiā with a 1st 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, 画家 is written 畫家. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one painter is 一个画家 (yí ge huàjiā).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huajia with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 画家 from the suggestions. Typing huajia into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
画家 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older 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.