How to say it in Chinese

Picture in Chinese

picture · HSK 2

画 huà

Counted with 幅: 一幅画 yì fú huà

墙上挂着一幅画。 A painting is hanging on the wall.

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Other ways to say picture

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How do you say picture in Chinese?

Picture in Chinese is 画 (huà). You can also say 照片 (zhào piàn), 图 (tú), 图片 (tú piàn), 画面 (huà miàn).

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.