Kanji1 / 8
画 kanji
brush-stroke, picture
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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
- —陽画positive
- —画工painter; artist
- —画讃legend over a picture; inscription (legend, writing) on a painting
- —書画paintings and calligraphic works
- —挿画(book) illustration
- —俗画popular picture
- —席画impromptu drawing composed at a gathering
- —自画picture painted by oneself; self-portrait
- —密画detailed drawing or picture
- —題画poem or writings added to a picture or painting
- —南画Southern School (of Chinese painting)
- —画境feeling of a painting; atmosphere of a painting; mood of a painting; state of mind when painting; mood to paint
- —作画drawing pictures; painting pictures; taking photographs
- —禅画Zen painting
- —略画rough sketch
- —彩画colored picture; coloured picture; painting
- —画業painting (as a profession); being a painter; achievements as a painter; one's works
- —画趣picturesqueness
- —画眉penciling eyebrows
- —連画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)