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画 — to draw; to paint; picture

to draw; to paint; picture; painting; to draw

Pinyin
huà
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 画: 8 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

画 — 8 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 画 in the HSK syllabus: 18

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 画huàto draw; to paint; picture; painting; to drawHSK 2
  2. 画家huàjiāpainterHSK 3
  3. 动画dònghuàanimation; cartoonHSK 5
  4. 国画guóhuàtraditional Chinese paintingHSK 5
  5. 画面huàmiànscene; tableau; picture; image; screen; frameHSK 5
  6. 图画túhuàdrawing; pictureHSK 5
  7. 绘画huìhuàto draw; to paintHSK 6
  8. 漫画mànhuàcaricature; cartoon; Japanese mangaHSK 6
  9. 书画shūhuàpainting and calligraphyHSK 6
  10. 壁画bìhuàmural; frescoHSK 7–9
  11. 画册huàcèpicture albumHSK 7–9
  12. 画龙点睛huàlóng-diǎnjīngto paint a dragon and dot in the eyes; fig. to add the vital finishing touchHSK 7–9
  13. 画蛇添足huàshé-tiānzúlit. draw legs on a snake; fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluousHSK 7–9
  14. 刻画kèhuàto portrayHSK 7–9
  15. 年画niánhuàNew Year pictureHSK 7–9
  16. 琴棋书画qín-qí-shū-huàthe four arts of the Chinese scholar; the accomplishments of a well-educated personHSK 7–9
  17. 油画yóuhuàoil paintingHSK 7–9
  18. 指手画脚zhǐshǒu-huàjiǎoto gesticulate while talkingHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.