画 huà
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 田 — field, farm, arable land
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
画家
huàjiā
artist
Characters in this word
家 jiā
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- Made of
- 宀 roof 豕 pig, boar
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 他是画家。 Tā shì huàjiā. He is an artist.
- 画家在画猫。 Huàjiā zài huà māo. The artist is drawing a cat.
- 我认识画家。 Wǒ rènshi huàjiā. I know the artist.