huì

draw

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

is a component form of .

會 sound component

  Sound component

huìkuài

  

to gather

Evolution

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
繪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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huì

draw, sketch, paint; to draw; to paint

Most common words with 繪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

描绘

to describe

绘画

drawing

to draw

绘制

to draw

绘图

to draw

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.3019% of movies

2345th most common character in movies

1809th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+7E6A

Shuowen

“繪,會五采繡也。《虞書》曰:‘山龍華蟲作繪。’《論語》曰:‘繪事後素。’从糸,會聲。”


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