Characters › 画
8 strokes · radical 一 (one) · traditional 畫
12 strokes · simplified 画
A way to remember it
A hand holding a brush above a field with its boundaries drawn. Marking out the lines is the picture of drawing.
A picture that makes the shape stick — not a claim about the character’s history.
Draft — written with AI help and not yet read by a person. What that means.
Shown in simplified. Converting whole words needs one-to-many knowledge this site does not have — 发 is 發 in 出发 but 髮 in 头发 — and a confidently wrong word would be worse than an honest simplified one.
Got it. Tell someone:
to draw; to paint; picture; painting (CL:幅,张)
huà — to draw; to paint; picture; painting (CL:幅,张)
Radical 一 (one) · 8 strokes · traditional 畫
12 strokes · simplified 画
A way to remember itA hand holding a brush above a field with its boundaries drawn. Marking out the lines is the picture of drawing.