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Kanji Information Sheet for 画 ( PDF version )
Bushu (Radical) Info:
一 (いち) – one
田 (た) – rice field
一 (いち) – one
田 (た) – rice field
Henshall Mnemonic: field in picture partitioned by strokes
Levels: JLPT N4 | JLPT 3 (old) | Grade 2
Frequency: #199 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #199 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N5 Words
- 映画 [えいが]
(n) movie; film [K] [D] [Jisho] - 映画館 [えいがかん]
(n) movie theatre (theater); cinema [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N4 Words
JLPT N3 Words
- 絵画 [かいが]
(n) picture [K] [D] [Jisho] - 計画 [けいかく]
(n,vs) plan; project; schedule; scheme; program [K] [D] [Jisho] - 画家 [がか]
(n) painter; artist [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N1 Words
- 版画 [はんが]
(n) art print [K] [D] [Jisho] - 企画 [きかく]
(n,vs) planning; project [K] [D] [Jisho] - 画 [かく]
(n) stroke [K] [D] [Jisho] - 区画 [くかく]
(n) division; section; compartment; boundary; area; block [K] [D] [Jisho] - 画期 [かっき]
(n) epoch-making [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 画面 [がめん]
(n) terminal screen; scene; picture; the field (in TV); photo [K] [D] [Jisho] - 画用紙 [がようし]
(n) drawing paper [K] [D] [Jisho] - 原画 [げんが]
(n) original picture [K] [D] [Jisho] - 画廊 [がろう]
(n) (picture) gallery [K] [D] [Jisho] - 録画 [ろくが]
(n,vs) videotape [K] [D] [Jisho] - 水彩画 [すいさいが]
(n) water color painting [K] [D] [Jisho] - 戯画 [ぎが]
(n) caricature; cartoon; comics [K] [D] [Jisho] - 洋画 [ようが]
(n) Western paintings [K] [D] [Jisho] - 日本画 [にほんが]
(n) Japanese paintings [K] [D] [Jisho] - 邦画 [ほうが]
(n) Japanese film [K] [D] [Jisho] - 計画的 [けいかくてき]
(adj-na) systematic [K] [D] [Jisho] - 劇画 [げきが]
(n) comic strip with dramatic story [K] [D] [Jisho] - 壁画 [へきが]
(n) fresco; mural; wall painting [K] [D] [Jisho] - 名画 [めいが]
(n) famous picture; masterpiece [K] [D] [Jisho] - 動画 [どうが]
(n) moving image [K] [D] [Jisho] - 経済企画庁 [けいざいきかくちょう]
Economic Planning Agency [K] [D] [Jisho] - 企画室 [きかくしつ]
planning office [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家族計画 [かぞくけいかく]
family planning [K] [D] [Jisho] - 漫画家 [まんがか]
(n) cartoonist; manga artist [K] [D] [Jisho] - 銅版画 [どうはんが]
copperplate engraving; etching [K] [D] [Jisho] - 画する [かくする]
(vs-s) to draw; to demarcate; to mark; to divide; to map out [K] [D] [Jisho] - 画一 [かくいつ]
(adj-na,n) uniformity; standardization [K] [D] [Jisho] - 画期的 [かっきてき]
(adj-na,n) epoch-making [K] [D] [Jisho] - 水墨画 [すいぼくが]
(n) India-ink painting [K] [D] [Jisho] - 字画 [じかく]
(n) number of strokes in character [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.