自画像

自畫像

zìhuàxiàng

noun #35,426

Measure Word

一幅自画像 fú

Meanings

1 self-portrait

Characters

portrait / image

Examples

HSK 6

这本书可以看作是作者的文字自画像。

Zhè běn shū kěyǐ kànzuò shì zuòzhě de wénzì zìhuàxiàng.

This book can be read as the author's self-portrait in words.

HSK 7-9

梵高一生画了三十多幅自画像。

Fán'gāo yīshēng huà le sānshí duō fú zìhuàxiàng.

Van Gogh painted more than thirty self-portraits in his lifetime.

Tips

culture

The most famous self-portraits in Chinese art-history textbooks are Van Gogh's (梵高) and Frida Kahlo's (弗里达·卡罗). The word is also used metaphorically - 'a written/musical self-portrait'.

Stroke Order

自 zì

画 huà

像 xiàng