漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
画: brush-stroke, picture
一 carries the meaning · 由 and 凵 are drawn in
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ガga · on'yomi · in compounds
- 映画えいがmovie
- 漫画まんがcomic
- 絵画かいがpainting
- 画面がめんscreen
カクkaku · on'yomi
- 計画するけいかくするplan
- 企画するきかくするplan (e.g. project)
- 画数かくすうstroke count
- 画期的かっきてきepoch-making
Also read エ, カイ, えがく, かくする, かぎる, はかりごと, はかる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)聿 brush (meaning) + 規 (sound)
Li Shoukui (2016): Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 聿 (“brush”) + phonetic 規. 規 (“compass”) appears in the oracle bone script in its pictographic protoform resembling a 乂.
Source: Wiktionary, 畫 (rev. 94590719), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Open wide! This radical represents the simple receptivity of a deep bowl and the raw, archaic power of a wide-open jaw.”
Connections
Also built on wherefore (由)
14 in allAlso read ガ
9 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 畫 · huà
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 画. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 畫.
- Simplified
- 画 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 畫 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin huà most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.