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绘

繪
huì
verb #10,189

Meanings

  1. 1 to draw
  2. 2 to paint
  3. 3 to portray

Examples

HSK 2
她从小就喜欢绘画。
Tā cóngxiǎo jiù xǐhuan huìhuà.
She has loved drawing and painting since childhood.
HSK 6
这部小说生动地描绘了乡村的生活。
Zhèbù xiǎoshuō shēngdòng de miáohuì le xiāngcūn de shēnghuó.
The novel vividly depicts life in the countryside.
HSK 6
古城的地图绘制得非常精确。
Gǔchéng de dìtú huìzhì de fēicháng jīngquè.
The map of the ancient city is drawn very precisely.

Tips

memory
纟 (silk) + 会 (meet) - painting on silk.

Components

radical
纟 sī
silk (radical form of 糸)
Left silk radical - the indexing radical, originally a pair of twisted threads. Marks 绘 as belonging to the textile family: 绣 (embroider), 绸 (silk), 织 (weave). Pictorial drawing in China grew out of embroidery and painted silk, so 'to draw' inherited the silk radical from its origin.
phonetic
会 huì
to meet; combine
Right side 会 supplies the sound directly (huì to huì, same tone) and adds a faint semantic flavour - 'meeting / combining,' which fits how painting brings many colours together on one cloth. Same phonetic appears in 桧 (juniper) and 烩 (braise).

Stroke Order

绘 huì