扉画

扉畫
fēihuà
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 frontispiece
  2. 2 illustration on or facing a book's title page

Examples

Zhè běn gǔjí de fēihuà shífēn jīngměi.
The frontispiece of this antique book is exquisite.
Tā tèyì qǐng huàjiā huà le yī fú fēihuà.
He specially commissioned an artist to paint a frontispiece.

Tips

usage
fēi originally means a leaf of a door — extended to the opening 'leaf' of a book (the title page), so 扉画 is literally the picture on the door-leaf of the book. Compare fēiyè (title page) and 插画 chāhuà (illustration in body text).

Stroke Order

fēi
huà