畫

See also: 画 and 劃

Translingual

shinjitai	画
simplified	画
traditional	畫

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 聿 (“pencil”) + 田 (“field”)

Han character

畫 (radical 102 田+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中土田一 (LGWM), four-corner 5010₆)

1. painting, picture, drawing
2. draw, delineate

Derived terms

• 晝, 劃, 嫿

References

• KangXi: page 763, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21859
• Dae Jaweon: page 1172, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2544, character 2
• Unihan data for U+756B

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Chinese

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trad.		畫
simp.		画

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huà (hua⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa², waak⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): oē

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: huà
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Wade-Giles: hua⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huah
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯a̠⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: waa², waak⁶
    • Yale: wá, waahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa², waak⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /wɑː³⁵/, /wɑːk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oē
    • Tâi-lô: oē
    • IPA (Taipei): /ue³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ue²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (畫, reconstructed)
Character (畫), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 佳 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 胡卦切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦɣuɛH/	/ɣwaiH/	/ɣuɛH/	/ɦʷɯæH/	/ɦwaɨjH/	/ɣwaiH/	/ɣuæiH/
Character (畫), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 麥 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 胡麥切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦwɣɛk̚/	/ɣwæk̚/	/ɣuɛk̚/	/ɦʷɯæk̚/	/ɦwəɨjk̚/	/ɣwæk̚/	/ɣuɐk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (畫, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
畫								huà								‹ hwɛH ›								/*C-ɡʷˤrek-s/								drawing (n.)
畫								huà								‹ hwɛk ›								/*ɡʷˤrek/								draw (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
畫					5330					畫					賜					0					畫					/*ɡʷreːɡs/
畫					5335					畫					錫					0					獲					/*ɡʷreːɡ/

Verb

畫

1. to write, to draw, to paint

Noun

畫

1. paint, picture

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

畫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 画)

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Readings

• On: かく (kaku), が (ga), かい (kai)
• Kun: かぎる (kagiru), はかる (hakaru), はかりごと (hakarigoto), かく (kaku)

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Korean

Hanja

畫 (hwa, hoek) (hangeul 화, 획, revised hwa, hoek, McCune-Reischauer hwa, hoek, Yale hwa, hoyk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

畫 (họa, hoạ, hoạch, vạch, vệt, dạch, vệch)

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