畫
부수: 田
획수: 12획
畫 has the meanings ‘to draw’, ‘painting’ and ‘picture’.
畫 = 聿 + 田 + 一
X = semantic + semantic + distinguishing mark
• 聿 depicts a hand holding a brush and represents the meaning ‘to draw’.
• 田 depicts a field divided by paths. In 畫, it represents a division being drawn.
• 一 is a distinguishing mark added to represent a boundary.
Evolution:
畫 = ’to define (draw) land boundaries’ ➔ ’to draw’ ➔ ’to paint’
Mnemonic
Understand that 畫 depicts a hand drawing 聿 divisions of a field 田. Imagine a giant hand drawing the 삼팔선 一 dividing North and South Korea.
Vocab
| 畫家 | 화가 | painter; artist |
| 漫畫 | 만화 | comics; cartoons |
| 名畵 | 명화 | great painting; masterpiece; great film |
| 肖像畫 | 초상화 | portrait |
| 風俗畵 | 풍속화 | genre painting |
| 人物畵 | 인물화 | figure painting; portrait |
| 畫面 | 화면 | image; screen |
| 映畫 | 영화 | movie |
| 錄畫 | 녹화 | video recording |
| 繪畫 | 회화 | conversation |
| 畫數 | 획수 | stroke count, a number of strokes in a Chinese character |
Additional notes
This character occurs as both 畫 (U+756B) and 畵 (U+7575).
This character can be used in place of 劃 (획).
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Bibliography
Affiliate links help support uK.
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 1135]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Henshall, K.G. (1998). A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters, [s.v. 85]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 畫, 聿, 田, 一].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 91]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.