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书画

shū huà

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 書畫

书画 (shū huà) means "painting and calligraphy". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 书画 means

1. painting and calligraphy

The characters in 书画

• 书shūbook; letter; document
• 画huàto draw; to paint; picture; painting; to draw (a line) (variant of 划

Example sentences

• 给这本书画插画的画家很好。
  Gěi zhè běn shūhuà chāhuà de huàjiā hěn hǎo.
  The artist who illustrated this book is very good.

Words starting with 书画

• 书画家shū huà jiācalligrapher and painter
• 书画毡shū huà zhānfelt desk pad for calligraphy

Words containing 书画

• 琴棋书画qín qí shū huà(idiom) the four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting)…

Sounds the same

Read shū huà, tone for tone, but written differently.

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