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

art gallery / decorated corridor
painting brush
lit. draw legs on a snake (idiom); fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluous / to overdo it
to apply makeup to the eyebrows / (bird species of China) Chinese hwamei (Garrulax canorus)
painting / picture / dimension of a painting
easel / rack for painting
to sign / to make one's mark
painting technique / drawing method
painted skin (which transforms a monster into a beauty)
to equate / to consider (two things) to be equivalent
decorated pleasure boat
to write on the sand with reeds while teaching one's son (idiom) / mother's admirable dedication to her children's education
to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it
to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it
character scroll / scroll painting
felt desk pad for calligraphy
descriptive geometry (three-dimensional geometry using projections and elevations)
rough sketch (of a painting) / (of an official) to approve a document by signing it

Sentences with 畫

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