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HSK
animated film
HSK 4
to draw; to paint
HSK 6
caricature / cartoon / Japanese manga
HSK 5
scene / tableau / picture / image / screen (displayed by a computer) / (motion picture) frame / field of view
HSK 5
painter / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
animation / cartoon
HSK 6
drawing / picture
HSK 3
Chinese painting
HSK 7-9
picture / drawing / painting
HSK 2
easel painting
oil painting
HSK 7-9
landscape painting
children's game played with illustrated cards / pogs / menko (Japan)
New Year (Spring Festival) picture
HSK 7-9
painting and calligraphy
voice-over / background narration
mural (painting) / fresco
HSK 7-9
to gesticulate while talking (idiom) / to explain by waving one's hands / to criticize or give orders summarily
HSK 7-9
to draw designs, maps etc / picture (e.g. of life in the city)
picture album
HSK 7-9
cartoon writer (from Japanese mangaka)
underline
the strokes of a character / calligraphy and painting
lit. draw legs on a snake (idiom); fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluous / to overdo it
HSK 7-9
calligrapher and painter
traditional Chinese painting
HSK 7-9
to paint a dragon and dot in the eyes (idiom); fig. to add the vital finishing touch / the crucial point that brings the subject to life / a few words to clinch the point
HSK 7-9
to sketch out / to delineate
HSK 7-9
to draw / to describe
to draw; to paint; to create artwork
picture scroll
art exhibition
HSK 7-9
printmaking / a print
propaganda poster / advertising hoarding
portrait / to do a portrait of sb
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  *画* | 画* | *画
to draw; to paint / picture; painting (CL:,張|张) / to draw (a line) (variant of 劃|划) / stroke of a Chinese character (variant of 劃|划) / (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of 劃|划)
HSK 2
watercolor / aquarelle
artist's studio / atelier
strokes of a Chinese character
subdivision (e.g. of provinces into counties)
famous painting
to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it
freehand drawing
illustrated magazine / CL: , , 冊|册,
rough sketch (of a painting) / (of an official) to approve a document by signing it
richly ornamented (building)
self-portrait
picturesque
painting brush
ink and wash painting
famous painter
to draw; to paint
to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it
image quality; resolution; definition
painting style
lit. drawing a tiger using a cat as a model (idiom); fig. to follow a model and get things more or less right but without capturing the spirit of the subject / uninspired imitation
painting on silk
rock painting / picture or writing carved on rocks
picturesque charm / idyllic appeal / poetic grace
(of scenery) stunning / spectacular / picturesque
lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model (idiom) / fig. to copy slavishly
canvas (artist's painting surface)
lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom) / fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification
to portray
lit. to draw a line on the ground to keep within (idiom) / fig. to impose restrictions on oneself
to sign / to make one's mark
placard; poster
to equate / to consider (two things) to be equivalent
felt desk pad for calligraphy
to make the sign of the cross / to make a cross (on paper)
lit. to be confined within a circle drawn on the ground (idiom) / fig. to confine oneself to a restricted range of activities
painting technique / drawing method
character scroll / scroll painting
the idea is present before the first stroke of the brush, when the last stroke is placed the idea shines through
obscene picture
accurate depiction of architectural forms with the aid of a ruler (technique of Chinese art) / picture created using this technique
felt desk pad for calligraphy
perspective drawing
lit. to draw a gourd from the model (idiom) / fig. to copy sth mechanically without attempt at originality
lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake / to feed on illusions (idiom)
illustration
woodcut; wood engraving
to draw a circle
painting / picture / dimension of a painting
(idiom) the four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting); (by extension) the accomplishments of a well-educated person
color painting
painting world / painting circles
to apply makeup to the eyebrows / (bird species of China) Chinese hwamei (Garrulax canorus)
lianhuanhua (graphic novel)
clay animation / Claymation
frontpage picture
rage comic
to write on the sand with reeds while teaching one's son (idiom) / mother's admirable dedication to her children's education
(bird species of China) Taiwan hwamei (Garrulax taewanus)
freehand drawing or painting in traditional Chinese style
sand picture
easel
paintbrush
art gallery / decorated corridor

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