画 (huà) means Draw (paint - drawing - painting). Below are 7 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
From the graded readers
画 笔在盒子里放了差不多十年。
huà bǐ zài hézi lǐ fàng le / liǎo / liào chàbuduō shínián.
The brushes sat in a box for nearly ten years.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
第二天我报名参加了一个周末的 画 画 班。
dì'èr tiān wǒ bàomíng cānjiā le / liǎo / liào yīgè zhōumò de / dì huà huà bān.
The next day I signed up for a weekend painting class.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
我从小就喜欢 画 画 ，可是上大学的时候选了别的专业。
wǒ cóngxiǎo jiù xǐhuan huà huà, kěshì shàng dàxué de / dì shíhou xuǎn le / liǎo / liào biéde zhuānyè.
I'd loved drawing since I was small, but at university I chose a different subject.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
三十岁生日那天，我做了一个决定：我要重新开始学 画 画 。
sānshí suì shēngrì nà / nèi tiān, wǒ zuòle yīgè juédìng: wǒ yāo chóngxīn kāishǐ xué huà huà.
On my thirtieth birthday I made a decision: I was going to start learning to paint again.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
如果我现在开始，五年以后我三十五岁，也许能 画 得不错。
rúguǒ wǒ xiànzài kāishǐ, wǔ nián yǐhòu wǒ sānshí wǔ suì, yěxǔ néng huà dé / děi / de búcuò.
If I started now, in five years I'd be thirty-five and could probably paint quite well.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
Questions about 画
How is 画 used in a sentence?
This page shows 7 sentences using 画 (huà, "Draw (paint - drawing - painting)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 画 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 画 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 画 an HSK word?
Yes — 画 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 画?
The dictionary page for 画 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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