畫

See also: 画, 劃, 划, 晝, and 書

畫 U+756B, 畫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-756B ← 番 [U+756A] CJK Unified Ideographs 畬 → [U+756C]

Translingual

Traditional	畫
Simplified	画
Japanese	画
Korean	畵

Han character

畫 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中土田一 (LGWM), four-corner 5010₆, composition ⿳⿱𦘒一田一)

Derived terms

• 晝, 劃, 嫿

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		畫
simp.		画
alternative forms		畵 𠚇 𡇍 𤰱 𨽶 畵 𠚇 𡇍 𤰱 𨽶 𤲯 𤲿 𦘕 𦘚 𤱪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 畫
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (畫) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
畫	*ɡʷreːɡs, *ɡʷreːɡ
澅	*ɡʷreːɡs
繣	*ɡʷreːɡs, *qʰʷreːɡ
劃	*qʰʷreːɡ, *ɡʷreːɡ
嫿	*ɡʷreːɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 聿 (“pen brush”) + 画 (“a field (田) enclosed on four sides”). Meaning of "field boundaries recorded with a brush".

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 畫

1. to write; to draw; to paint
2. to divide by a line
3. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 劃／划 (huá, “to devise”).
4. stroke of Chinese character

Synonyms

• (to draw): (literary, or in compounds) 繪／绘 (huì)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): huà (hua⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˋ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): hua⁴

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁶ / waa^6-2
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fa / va̍k
• Northern Min (KCR): huā
• Eastern Min (BUC): uăh / uâ
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ūi / ōa / ōe / ǒe / hōa

  (Teochew, Peng'im): uê⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huà
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huà
    • Wade–Giles: hua⁴
    • Yale: hwà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huah
    • Palladius: хуа (xua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (畫兒／画儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huàr
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huàr
    • Wade–Giles: hua⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: hwàr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huall
    • Palladius: хуар (xuar)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɑɻ⁵¹/

Note: huàr - drawing.

• • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: hua⁴
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xua
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xua²¹³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: waa⁶ / waa^6-2
    • Yale: wah / wá
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁶ / waa^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa⁶ / wa^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː²²/, /waː²²⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fa / va̍k
    • Hakka Romanization System: fa / vag
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fa⁴ / vag⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /fa⁵⁵/, /vak̚⁵/

Note:

• fa - literary;
• va̍k - vernacular.

• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: huā
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xua⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: uăh / uâ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uaʔ⁵/, /uɑ²⁴²/

Note:

• uăh - vernacular;
• uâ - literary.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Sanxia, Taipei, Kinmen, Magong)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ūi
    • Tâi-lô: uī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ui
    • IPA (Taipei): /ui³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Kinmen): /ui²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ōa
    • Tâi-lô: uā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oa
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ua²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Yilan, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Taichung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ōe
    • Tâi-lô: uē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oe
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ue⁴¹/
    • IPA (Yilan, Tainan, Kaohsiung): /ue³³/
  • (Hokkien: Lukang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ǒe
    • Tâi-lô: uě
    • IPA (Lukang): /ue³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hōa
    • Tâi-lô: huā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoa
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hua²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hua⁴¹/

Note:

• ūi/ōa/ōe/ǒe - vernacular;
• hōa - literary (rare).

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: uê⁷
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: uē
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ue¹¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hweaH

Rime
Character	畫
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	佳 (32)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡卦切
Baxter	hweaH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠuɛH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚæH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaɨjH/
Li Rong	/ɣuɛH/
Wang Li	/ɣwaiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwaiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huà
Expected Cantonese Reflex	waai6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C-ɡʷˤrek-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷreːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	畫
Reading #	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huà
Middle Chinese	‹ hwɛH ›
Old Chinese	/*C-ɡʷˁrek-s/
English	drawing (n.)
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	畫
Reading #	1/2
No.	5330
Phonetic component	畫
Rime group	賜
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	畫
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷreːɡs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 畫

1. drawing; painting; picture (Classifier: 幅 m c mn)

   畫幅畫／画幅画 [Cantonese]  ―  waak⁶ fuk¹ waa^6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to draw a drawing

2. decorated with paintings

References

• “畫”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02650

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	画
Kyūjitai	畫

Kanji

畫

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 画)

1. Kyūjitai form of 画 (picture)

Readings

• Go-on: え (e)^{←ゑ (we, historical)}、が (ga)^{←ぐわ (gwa, historical)}、わく (waku)
• Kan-on: かい (kai)^{←くわい (kwai, historical)}、かく (kaku)^{←くわく (kwaku, historical)}
• Kun: えがく (egaku, 畫く)^{←ゑがく (wegaku, 畫く, historical)}、かく (kaku, 畫く)、かぎる (kagiru, 畫る)、はかりごと (hakarigoto, 畫)、はかる (hakaru, 畫る)

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 畫 – see the following entry.

【画】2 [kanji] second grade kanji Kanji reading: え, えがく, かぎる, かく, はかる

(This term, 畫, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

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Korean

Alternative forms

• 畵

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 畫 (MC hweaH).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448	ᅘᅫᆼ〮 (Yale: hhwáy)
Middle Korean
Text	Eumhun
	Gloss (hun)	Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[2]	그〮릴〮 (Yale: kúlíl)	화〯 (Yale: hwǎ)

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɸwa̠(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [화(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Wikisource

畫 (eumhun 그림 화 (geurim hwa))

1. hanja form^? of 화 (“picture; drawing; painting”)

Compounds

Compounds

• 화면 (畫面, hwamyeon)
• 화가 (畫家, hwaga)
• 영화 (映畫, yeonghwa)
• 만화 (漫畫, manhwa)
• 벽화 (壁畫, byeokhwa)
• 화룡점정 (畫龍點睛, hwaryongjeomjeong)

Etymology 2

From Middle Chinese 畫 (MC hweak).

Hanja

畫 (eumhun 그을 획 (geueul hoek))

1. Alternative form of 劃 (“hanja form^? of 획 (“to draw a line; to mark”)”)

Compounds

Compounds

• 획수 (畫數, hoeksu)
• 획출 (畫出, hoekchul)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

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Vietnamese

Han character

畫: Hán Nôm readings: họa/hoạ, hoạch, vạch, vệt, dạch, vệch

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