"點畫" meaning in Chinese

See 點畫 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, standard], /tiːm³⁵ waːk̚²/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/, /tiːm³⁵ waːk̚²/ Chinese transliterations: diǎnhuà [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], dim² waak⁶ [Cantonese, Jyutping], diǎnhuà [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, standard], ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], diǎnhuà [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin, standard], tien³-hua⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles, standard], dyǎn-hwà [Mandarin, Yale, standard], deanhuah [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, standard], дяньхуа [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], djanʹxua [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], dím waahk [Cantonese, Yale], dim² waak⁹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], dim² wag⁶ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization] Forms: 点画, 點劃
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 點畫
  1. strokes and dots (of a Chinese character) Synonyms: 筆畫/笔画 (bǐhuà), 筆畫 (bǐhuà), 笔画 (bǐhuà), 字劃 [Hokkien], 字划 [Hokkien]
    Sense id: en-點畫-zh-noun-gzepKJKo Categories (other): Writing Disambiguation of Writing: 33 32 35

Verb

IPA: /ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, standard], /tiːm³⁵ waːk̚²/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/, /tiːm³⁵ waːk̚²/ Chinese transliterations: diǎnhuà [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], dim² waak⁶ [Cantonese, Jyutping], diǎnhuà [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, standard], ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], diǎnhuà [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin, standard], tien³-hua⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles, standard], dyǎn-hwà [Mandarin, Yale, standard], deanhuah [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, standard], дяньхуа [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], djanʹxua [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], dím waahk [Cantonese, Yale], dim² waak⁹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], dim² wag⁶ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization] Forms: 点画, 點劃
Head templates: {{zh-verb}} 點畫
  1. to point with the finger; to gesticulate
    Sense id: en-點畫-zh-verb-EadCrWar Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Writing Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 33 61 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 8 82 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 90 5 Disambiguation of Writing: 33 32 35
  2. (literary) to embellish; to adorn Tags: literary
    Sense id: en-點畫-zh-verb-7KLRf21N Categories (other): Writing Disambiguation of Writing: 33 32 35
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      "form": "点画",
      "raw_tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "點劃"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
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        }
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        "strokes and dots (of a Chinese character)"
      ],
      "id": "en-點畫-zh-noun-gzepKJKo",
      "links": [
        [
          "stroke",
          "stroke"
        ],
        [
          "dot",
          "dot"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "roman": "bǐhuà",
          "word": "筆畫/笔画"
        },
        {
          "roman": "bǐhuà",
          "word": "筆畫"
        },
        {
          "roman": "bǐhuà",
          "word": "笔画"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "字劃"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "字划"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "diǎnhuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dim² waak⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "diǎnhuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "diǎnhuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tien³-hua⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dyǎn-hwà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "deanhuah"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "дяньхуа"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "djanʹxua"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dím waahk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dim² waak⁹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dim² wag⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tiːm³⁵ waːk̚²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tiːm³⁵ waːk̚²/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "點畫"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "点画",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "點劃"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "33 61 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 82 10",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 90 5",
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          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
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          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Writing",
          "orig": "zh:Writing",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to point with the finger; to gesticulate"
      ],
      "id": "en-點畫-zh-verb-EadCrWar",
      "links": [
        [
          "point",
          "point"
        ],
        [
          "finger",
          "finger"
        ],
        [
          "gesticulate",
          "gesticulate"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "33 32 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Writing",
          "orig": "zh:Writing",
          "parents": [],
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to embellish; to adorn"
      ],
      "id": "en-點畫-zh-verb-7KLRf21N",
      "links": [
        [
          "embellish",
          "embellish"
        ],
        [
          "adorn",
          "adorn"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) to embellish; to adorn"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "diǎnhuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dim² waak⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "diǎnhuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "diǎnhuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tien³-hua⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dyǎn-hwà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "deanhuah"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "дяньхуа"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "djanʹxua"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dím waahk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dim² waak⁹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dim² wag⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tiːm³⁵ waːk̚²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tiːm³⁵ waːk̚²/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "點畫"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 畫",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 點",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Chinese verbs",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "zh:Writing"
  ],
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      "form": "点画",
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        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
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      "form": "點劃"
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "zh",
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  "senses": [
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        "strokes and dots (of a Chinese character)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stroke",
          "stroke"
        ],
        [
          "dot",
          "dot"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "diǎnhuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dim² waak⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "diǎnhuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "diǎnhuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tien³-hua⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dyǎn-hwà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "deanhuah"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "дяньхуа"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "djanʹxua"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dím waahk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dim² waak⁹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dim² wag⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tiːm³⁵ waːk̚²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tiːm³⁵ waːk̚²/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "bǐhuà",
      "word": "筆畫/笔画"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bǐhuà",
      "word": "筆畫"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bǐhuà",
      "word": "笔画"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "字劃"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "字划"
    }
  ],
  "word": "點畫"
}

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    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 畫",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 點",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Chinese verbs",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "zh:Writing"
  ],
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    {
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "點劃"
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        "to point with the finger; to gesticulate"
      ],
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        [
          "point",
          "point"
        ],
        [
          "finger",
          "finger"
        ],
        [
          "gesticulate",
          "gesticulate"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "Chinese literary terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to embellish; to adorn"
      ],
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        [
          "embellish",
          "embellish"
        ],
        [
          "adorn",
          "adorn"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) to embellish; to adorn"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "diǎnhuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dim² waak⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "diǎnhuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "diǎnhuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tien³-hua⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dyǎn-hwà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "deanhuah"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "дяньхуа"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "djanʹxua"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dím waahk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dim² waak⁹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dim² wag⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tiːm³⁵ waːk̚²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tiːm³⁵ waːk̚²/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "點畫"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 點畫 meaning in Chinese (4.3kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-07-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-07-01 using wiktextract (45c4a21 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.