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字畫，書畫 calligraphy and painting as twin arts;
油畫 oil painting;
水彩畫 water color;
國畫，西洋畫 Chinese, Western painting;
壁畫 murals, fresco;
漫畫 cartoon;
詩中有畫，畫中有詩 (of 王維) there is painting in his poetry, and poetry in his painting;
畫中人 (of lady) as pretty as a picture;
畫報，畫刊 a pictorial magazine;
畫冊 an album of paintings.
(2) A horizontal stroke in calligraphy.
(3) A stroke of any kind in writing: 這個字共幾畫 how many strokes in this character?
繪畫 make a drawing;
畫圖 [hua4tu2]↓: 畫畫 to paint a painting;
能寫會畫 can write and paint;
畫稿 first sketch;
畫樣子 a rough draft;
畫影圖形 to draw a portrait;
畫餅充饑 to draw a cake and call it a dinner--a Barmecide feast;
畫龍點睛 “to put in the eye pupil in painting a dragon”--the critical touch;
畫蛇添足 paint a snake with feet--superfluous;
畫虎類犬 fail to achieve what one set out to do, unsuccessful attempt in description;
畫鬼易，畫狗難 easier to paint a ghost than a dog;
畫脂鏤冰 to draw on butter or carve ice--a futile undertaking;
畫法 the technique of painting;
畫神，畫理 to paint the expression of persons or inner law of things.
(2) To draw a line in sense of “divide” (also wr. 劃): 晝界 to draw the boundary;
畫分 divide the line;
畫開 to set aside (a sum of money, duty).
(3) To plan: 計畫，籌畫，策畫 to plan (as to draw an outline).
(4) To put one's signature: 畫諾 to “okay”;
畫到 sign arrival at office;
see 畫押，畫供 [hua4ya1], [hua4gong1]1↓.
2.畫報 [hua4bao4], n., pictorial magazine.
3.畫布 [hua4bu4], n., canvas for painting.
4.畫荻 [hua4di2], phr., mother’s instruction (from Ouyang Shiu's mother who taught him to write by using a rush stalk on the ground).
5.畫分 [hua4fen1], v.t., to divide in parts (also wr. 劃分).
6.畫供 [hua4gong1]1, v.i., to sign affidavit.
7.畫工 [hua4gong1]2, n., a commercial painter.
8.畫壼兒 [hua4hu2er0], n., a snuffbottle with miniature drawing.
9.畫展 [hua4zhan3], n., art exhibition.
10.畫家 [hua4jia1], n., a painter.
11.畫架 [hua4jia4], n., an easel, a rack for painting.
12.畫匠 [hua4jiang4], n., (derog.) commercial artist.
13.畫境 [hua4jing4], n., the poetic level of painting, a beautiful scene as visualized by the artist.
14.畫角 [hua4jUe2], n., an anc. horn used in the army like bugle.
15.畫具 [hua4jU4], n., painting instruments.
16.畫刊 [hua4kan1], n., a pictorial magazine.
17.畫拉 [hua4la0], v.i., to daub ink, scribble.
18.畫卯 [hua4mao3], v.i., to sign arrival at office (about 7 a.m.).
19.畫眉 [hua4mei2], (1) n., the grey thrush; (2) v.i., to draw eyebrows.
20.畫面 [hua4mian4], n., the gen. appearance of a work of art in respect of light, color, and composition.
21.畫片兒 [hua4piaher0], n., small reprints of paintings.
22.畫屏 [hua4ping2], n., a painted portable screen or partition.
23.畫譜 [hua4pu3], n., (1) a painting album; (2) book on painting and painters.
24.畫象 [hua4xiang4], n., portrait.
25.畫師 [hua4shi1], n., (court.) painter.
26.畫室 [hua4shi4], n., artist's studio.
27.畫學 [hua4xUe2], n., the study of painting.
28.畫帖 [hua4tie4], n., model painting for copying.
29.畫策 [hua4ce4], n. & v.i., plan.
30.畫圖 [hua4tu2], v.i. & n., paint, -ing, draw, -ing; 畫圖器 T-square, protractor, etc. for drawing designs.
31.畫押 [hua4ya1], v.i., to make a sign (esp. by an illiterate) in lieu of signature.
32.畫一 [hua4yi1], v.t. & adj., uniform (order, appearance); definite, unequivocal, standardized.