to draw / picture / painting / CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1] / classifier for paintings etc / variant of 劃|划[hua4]

= + + : Helga Horse (hu) decided to make the ashram's bathroom (a4) more beautiful, so she paints (画) her favourite field (田) on the wall using a flute (一). She doesn't watch out for the receptacles (凵) though, and gets shocked as her flute gets stuck in one of them.

畫 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
field / farm / CL:片[pian4]

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to plant a field (田) of crosses (十) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). She ordered an enclosure (囗) full of crosses (十) and puts them up one by one.
(arch. introductory particle) / then / and then

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a broad decorator's brush.

Yu the Great (yu) is painting in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). First she paints backgrounds with a decorator's brush (聿), then applies some details using a crayon (肀), and finally she discharges a capacitor (二) on the canvas for special effects.

Characters with 畫 as component

to cut / to slash / to scratch (cut into the surface of sth) / to strike (a match)

= + : Just inside the ashram's kitchen Helga Horse is paddling in a small boat through a deadly sea of kitchen knives and spears.
to delimit / to transfer / to assign / to plan / to draw (a line) / stroke of a Chinese character
tranquil
obstinate / perverse

Words with 畫

painter / CL:個|个[ge4]
portrait / to do a portrait of sb
painting; picture
painting / picture
canvas (artist's painting surface)
art exhibition
illustrated magazine / CL:本[ben3],份[fen4],冊|册[ce4],期[qi1]
picture album
voice-over / background narration
to draw designs, maps etc / picture (e.g. of life in the city)
artist's studio / atelier
picture scroll
painting world / painting circles
lit. to be confined within a circle drawn on the ground (idiom) / fig. to confine oneself to a restricted range of activities
see 畫地為牢|画地为牢[hua4 di4 wei2 lao2]
accurate depiction of architectural forms with the aid of a ruler (technique of Chinese art) / picture created using this technique
picture / drawing / painting
to make the sign of the cross / to make a cross (on paper)
to draw a circle
lit. to draw a line on the ground to keep within (idiom) / fig. to impose restrictions on oneself

Sentences with 畫

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