手指画

手指畫
shǒuzhǐhuà
noun #32,858

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 finger painting
  2. 2 a painting made with the fingers (rather than a brush)

Examples

Yòu'éryuán de háizi men zhèngzài huà shǒuzhǐhuà.
The kindergarten children are doing finger painting.
Zhè fú shǒuzhǐhuà shì tā sān suì shí huà de.
She painted this finger painting when she was three.

Tips

culture
Refers both to the Western preschool craft (toddlers smearing paint with fingers) and to the traditional Chinese art of 指画 (zhǐhuà), where painters substitute fingers, fingernails, or palms for the brush. Qing-dynasty painter 高其佩 (Gāo Qípèi) is the genre's most famous practitioner.

Stroke Order

shǒu
zhǐ
huà