huì

draw

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
纟 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

is a component form of .

会 sound component

  Sound component

huìkuài

  

to gather

Evolution

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
绘 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
绘 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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huì

draw, sketch, paint; to draw; to paint

Most common words with 绘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

描绘

to describe

绘画

drawing

to draw

绘制

to draw

绘图

to draw

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 5.3019% of movies

2345th most common character in movies

1809th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+7ED8


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