自画像

自畫像
zìhuàxiàng
noun #35,426

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 self-portrait

Examples

Fán'gāo yīshēng huàle sānshí duō fú zìhuàxiàng.
Van Gogh painted more than thirty self-portraits in his lifetime.
Zhè běn shū kěyǐ kànzuò shì zuòzhě de wénzì zìhuàxiàng.
This book can be read as the author's self-portrait in words.

Tips

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

Stroke Order

huà
xiàng