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劃

huà, huá

cut, delimit, draw

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 畫 represents the sound.

Components
畫 sound,meaning component

畫  Sound Meaning component

huà

  

a painting

刂 meaning component

刂  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Evolution

劃 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
劃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
劃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

划 (劃) 

huà

divide, mark off, lay boundary; to delimit; to transfer; to assign; to plan; to draw (a line); stroke of a Chinese character

划 (劃) 

huá

to cut; to slash; to scratch (cut into the surface of sth); to strike (a match)

Most common words with 劃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

计划

plan

规划

planning

划

to delimit

策划

to plot

划分

to divide up

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*gʷˤrek

hweak

huà

draw (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 63.9436% of movies

558th most common character in movies

522nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

划

Unicode

U+5283

Shuowen

“劃，錐刀曰劃。从刀，从畫，畫亦聲。”


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