huáhuà

row, paddle

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. In simplified Chinese is also used to mean "cut, delimit, draw", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character .

Components
戈 sound component

  Sound component

  

spear

刂 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

is a component form of .

Evolution

划 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
划 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
划 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
划 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

 

huá

to row; to paddle; profitable; worth (the effort); it pays (to do sth)

() 

huà

divide, mark off, lay boundary; to delimit; to transfer; to assign; to plan; to draw (a line); stroke of a Chinese character

() 

huá

to cut; to slash; to scratch (cut into the surface of sth); to strike (a match)

Most common words with 划
Freq.
Word
Meaning

计划

plan

规划

planning

to delimit

策划

to plot

划分

to divide up

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.[g]ʷˤraj (?)

hwae

huá

row (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 63.9436% of movies

558th most common character in movies

522nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

Unicode

U+5212


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