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
- —彩色画colour picture (color); color painting
- —用器画mechanical drawing
- —抽象画abstract painting
- —宗教画religious painting; religious picture
- —文人画style of Southern Chinese painting
- —自在画freehand drawing
- —活人画tableau vivant
- —静物画still life (painting, drawing)
- —西洋画Western painting
- —細密画miniature (painting, portrait, etc.)
- —絵画館art or picture gallery
- —洋画家artist who produces Western-style paintings
- —映画界film world; world of cinema
- —花鳥画painting of flowers and birds; bird-and-flower genre in Chinese and Japanese painting
- —木炭画charcoal drawing
- —淡彩画wash drawing
- —風刺画caricature
- —風俗画genre picture; painting depicting customs
- —風景画landscape painting
- —映画狂movie fan; cinema enthusiast