Kanji1 / 8
画 kanji
brush-stroke, picture
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
Practice writing
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On readings
ガカクエカイ
Kun readings
えがくかくするかぎるはかりごとはかる
Variant forms
畫Words with 画
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —描画像image
- —肉筆画picture painted by hand; painting (as opposed to a woodblock print); original painting; original drawing
- —映画学film study
- —絵画的picturesque; pictorial; graphic
- —ペン画pen drawing; pen-and-ink drawing
- —セル画animation cel (from an animated movie)
- —祭壇画altarpiece
- —顔画像facial image
- —美人画portrait of a beautiful woman (esp. ukiyo-e); bijin-ga
- —原画展exhibition of original images
- —漫画化caricaturing; turning a movie, novel, etc. into a manga; making a comic version of something
- —劇画調gekiga style; manga style characterized by bold lines and dramatic composition
- —漫画字comic font; rounded handwriting
- —絵画展exhibition of pictures; painting exhibition; art exhibition
- —線描画line drawing
- —原画家key animator; lead animator
- —映画人cineast; someone who works in the movie industry
- —設定画(annotated) model sheet; character sheet
- —聖画像icon; religious picture; sacred image
- —映画賞film award