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
- —淫画lewd pictures
- —画角angle of view (photography)
- —画僧artist-monk
- —音画Tonmalerei (musical imagery); sound film
- —画房artist's studio; workshop; studio; atelier
- —画舫exquisitely decorated pleasure boat
- —装画book-cover design; picture on the cover of a book
- —画塾private painting school
- —画力drawing ability; skill at art
- —画派school of painting
- —画竜drawn dragon; painted dragon
- —民画picture depicting everyday life; folk art
- —蘭画Western-inspired art (Edo period); oil painting
- —聖画religious painting; sacred painting
- —画展exhibition of pictures; painting exhibition; art exhibition
- —画仙master painter
- —画論treatise on painting; essay on painting; theory of painting
- —活画lifelike painting; vividly drawn picture
- —陶画picture painted on porcelain; porcelain painting
- —印画紙photographic paper