Question

画 えが.く、かく.する、かぎ.る、はかりごと、はか.る 映画(えいが): movie; film計画(けいかく): plan; project; schedule; scheme; program; programme企画(きかく): planning; project; plan; design絵画(かいが): picture; painting画(かく): stroke (of a kanji, etc.)画家(がか): painter; artist漫画(まんが): cartoon; comic; comic strip映画館(えいがかん): movie theatre (theater); cinema版画(はんが): woodcut; woodblock print; art print区画(くかく): division; section; compartment; boundary; area; block画期(かっき): ground-breaking; epoch (making)画(が): picture; drawing; painting; sketch 2 一: one; one radical (no.1)由: wherefore; a reason凵: open box enclosure; open box radical (no. 17) 田 5 畫 brush stroke To paint a kanji in your ceiling with only natural materials, you use a sprout as a brush and shovel some dirt to use as paint for your strokes. [modified from johnskb´s].

Accepted Answer

ガ、カク、エ、カイ brush-stroke, picture 4 199 8 102 た・たへん 会意 Compound Ideographic You decide one day to paint a kanji on your ceiling. Unfortunately, you don’t have a brush, so, being innovative, you use a sprout. Knowing it could be messy, you search for a drop-cloth, but can’t find one. Instead, you put a shovel down on the floor to catch any drips resulting from the BRUSH-STROKEs.

Kanji	画
Onyomi	ガ、カク、エ、カイ
Kunyomi	えが.く、かく.する、かぎ.る、はかりごと、はか.る
English	brush-stroke, picture
Examples	映画(えいが): movie; film 計画(けいかく): plan; project; schedule; scheme; program; programme 企画(きかく): planning; project; plan; design 絵画(かいが): picture; painting 画(かく): stroke (of a kanji, etc.) 画家(がか): painter; artist 漫画(まんが): cartoon; comic; comic strip 映画館(えいがかん): movie theatre (theater); cinema 版画(はんが): woodcut; woodblock print; art print 区画(くかく): division; section; compartment; boundary; area; block 画期(かっき): ground-breaking; epoch (making) 画(が): picture; drawing; painting; sketch
JLPT Level	4
Jouyou Grade	2
Frequency	199
Components	一: one; one radical (no.1) 由: wherefore; a reason 凵: open box enclosure; open box radical (no. 17)
Number of Strokes	8
Kanji Radical	田
Radical Number	102
Radical Strokes	5
Radical Reading	た・たへん
Traditional Form	畫
Classification	会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword	brush stroke
Koohii Story 1	You decide one day to paint a kanji on your ceiling. Unfortunately, you don’t have a brush, so, being innovative, you use a sprout. Knowing it could be messy, you search for a drop-cloth, but can’t find one. Instead, you put a shovel down on the floor to catch any drips resulting from the BRUSH-STROKEs.
Koohii Story 2	To paint a kanji in your ceiling with only natural materials, you use a sprout as a brush and shovel some dirt to use as paint for your strokes. [modified from johnskb´s].

Paint Plan Project Picture Stroke Radical Open Box