画 – brush-stroke, picture

8 strokesTaught in grade 2#199 in newspaper frequencyN5 vocabulary

The kanji 画 means brush-stroke, picture. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ガ、カク、エ、カイ (ga, kaku, e, kai); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is えが.く、かく.する、かぎ.る、はかりごと、はか.る (egaku, kakusuru, kagiru, hakarigoto, hakaru). It is written with 8 strokes, under radical 田 (no. 102).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ガ	ga
On’yomi	カク	kaku
On’yomi	エ	e
On’yomi	カイ	kai
Kun’yomi	えが.く	egaku
Kun’yomi	かく.する	kakusuru
Kun’yomi	かぎ.る	kagiru
Kun’yomi	はかりごと	hakarigoto
Kun’yomi	はか.る	hakaru

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 田 (Kangxi radical 102). Components: 一・田・凵.

Words using 画

映画えいがmovie映画館えいがかんmovie theatre漫画まんがcartoon計画けいかくplan絵画かいがpainting画家がかpainter画がpicture画かくstroke (of a kanji)企画きかくplanning区画くかくdivision版画はんがwoodcut

Example sentences

その映画をもう一度見たいな。

I want to see the movie again.

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その映画館は人々でいっぱいだった。

The cinema was filled with people.

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僕の趣味は漫画を読む事です。

My hobby is reading comics.

Tatoeba #82204

Kanji with the same radical

田界男町由番申異留略甲畑畳畜

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.