畫 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. (ガ)絵。ものを筆などで描いたもの。絵を描くこと。
  2. (日本のみ)映画・映像の意。
  3. (カク/名詞)場所の区切り。
  4. (カク/名詞・動詞)はかりごと。はかる。
  5. (カク/名詞)字の点画。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

甲骨文字に見られる原字は古代のコンパスを象る象形文字。のち「聿」(筆の象形)を加えて「𬚪」の字体となり、西周の時代に「周 (琱)」を加えて「畫」となる。「えがく」を意味する漢語{畫}を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

picture, sketch, drawing, stroke, mark, divide

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • カク
  • カイ
Kun (native)
  • えが(く)
  • かく(する)
  • かぎ(る)
  • はかりごと
  • はか(る)
Other languages
  • 拼音hua4
  • 한글hwa
  • 한글hoeg
  • Hán-ViệtHọa
  • Hán-ViệtHoạch

Basics

Strokes
12 strokes
Radical
田(た)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+756B

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱聿𲰶

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-6-6
Four Corner
5010.6
Spahn–Hadamitzky
0a8.7
Nelson
3721