画huà
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画
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Shuowen
画. The oracle bone form features a hand holding a brush (聿) beside a field (田), indicating the act of painting a scene. The character originally meant "to draw" or "to paint", and the composition shows a brush applied to a field to create a picture. The simplified form 画 preserves the idea of drawing, while the traditional 畫 explicitly shows the brush and field.
Pinyin
huà· HSK 2