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畫 (waak6) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

畫 (waak6, huà) — to delimit; to transfer; to assign; to plan; to draw (a line, a picture); stroke of a Chinese character; to paint; to sketch; to delineate; to divide; to set aside; to put one's signature

Classifier

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Usage

Level

beyond HSK

Related words

• 畫公仔唔使畫出腸 (waak6 gung1 zai2 m4 sai2 waak6 ceot1 coeng2) — don't have to disclose everything; there is no need to spell it out
• 畫公仔畫出腸 (waak6 gung1 zai2 waak6 ceot1 coeng4) — stating the obvious or anything unacceptable (slang)
• 畫則師 (waak6 zak1 si1) — (noun) an architect
• 畫則 (waak6 zik1) — Architect
• 畫匠 (waa2 zoeng6) — artisan-painter
• 畫家 (waa2 gaa1) — artist (painter)

Chengyu with this character

• 畫蛇添足 — To spoil something good by adding what it does not need. Used when extra touches make a finished job worse, not better.

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