Painting in Chinese
painting · HSK 2
画
Counted with 幅: 一幅画
墙上挂着一幅画。 A painting is hanging on the wall.
Other ways to say painting
More words with 画
How do you say painting in Chinese?
Painting in Chinese is 画 (huà). You can also say 美术 (měi shù), 绘画 (huì huà).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.