扉画

扉畫
fēihuà
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 6
Tā tèyì qǐng huàjiā huà le yī fú fēihuà.
He specially commissioned an artist to paint a frontispiece.
HSK 7-9
Zhè běn gǔjí de fēihuà shífēn jīngměi.
The frontispiece of this antique book is exquisite.

Tips

usage
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 扉页 (title page) and 插画 (illustration in body text).

Stroke Order

fēi
huà