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
- —音楽映画musical (film)
- —宮廷画家court painter
- —恐怖映画horror film
- —漫画雑誌comic book
- —科学映画science film
- —画像診断image diagnosis
- —映画作家script-writer; auteur
- —連続画像sequential art or pictures (type of printed, graphic storytelling, differentiated from manga by its liberal use of page space, often only one panel per page, and sparing use of dialogue)
- —画蛇添足making an unnecessary addition (to); gilding the lily
- —長尺映画long film (movie)
- —風俗画風(of the) genre painting style; (of the) style of painting that depicts people's customs and manners; (of the) type of painting that denotes the life of ordinary people
- —エロ画像erotic picture
- —透過画像computer image with a transparent background; transmission image (X-ray image, etc.)
- —図画工作drawing and manual arts (school subject); arts and crafts
- —青春映画youth film; teen movie
- —仏教絵画Buddhist painting
- —３Ｄ映画3D movie
- —画素間隔pel spacing
- —画素配列pel array
- —画像圧縮image compression