国画
guó huà
Pinyin

Definition

国画
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guó huà
  1. traditional Chinese painting

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

中国
Zhōng guó
  1. 1 China
中国人
Zhōng guó rén
  1. 1 Chinese person
国
Guó
  1. 1 surname Guo
国内
guó nèi
  1. 1 domestic
  2. 2 internal (to a country)
  3. 3 civil
国家
guó jiā
  1. 1 country
  2. 2 nation
  3. 3 state
  4. 4 CL:個|个[gè]
国际
guó jì
  1. 1 international
漫画
màn huà
  1. 1 caricature
  2. 2 cartoon
  3. 3 Japanese manga
画
huà
  1. 1 to draw
  2. 2 picture
  3. 3 painting
  4. 4 CL:幅[fú],張|张[zhāng]
  5. 5 classifier for paintings etc
  6. 6 variant of 劃|划[huà]
美国
Měi guó
  1. 1 United States
  2. 2 USA
  3. 3 US
英国
Yīng guó
  1. 1 United Kingdom 聯合王國|联合王国[Lián hé wáng guó]
  2. 2 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  3. 3 abbr. for England 英格蘭|英格兰[Yīng gé lán]
韩国
Hán guó
  1. 1 South Korea (Republic of Korea)
  2. 2 Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄[zhàn guó qī xióng]
  3. 3 Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897
中国式
Zhōng guó shì
  1. 1 Chinese style
  2. 2 à la chinoise
亡国
wáng guó
  1. 1 (of a nation) to be destroyed
  2. 2 subjugation
  3. 3 vanquished nation
作画
zuò huà
  1. 1 to paint
俄国
É guó
  1. 1 Russia
全国
quán guó
  1. 1 whole nation
  2. 2 nationwide
  3. 3 countrywide
  4. 4 national
共和国
gòng hé guó
  1. 1 republic
出国
chū guó
  1. 1 to go abroad
  2. 2 to leave the country
  3. 3 emigration
刻画
kè huà
  1. 1 to portray
动画
dòng huà
  1. 1 animation
  2. 2 cartoon

Idioms (20)

亡国灭种
wáng guó miè zhǒng
  1. 1 country destroyed, its people annihilated (idiom); total destruction
以身报国
yǐ shēn bào guó
  1. 1 to give one's body for the nation (idiom); to spend one's whole life in the service of the country
以身许国
yǐ shēn xǔ guó
  1. 1 to dedicate oneself to the cause of one's country (idiom)
依样画葫芦
yī yàng huà hú lu
  1. 1 lit. to draw a gourd from the model (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to copy sth mechanically without attempt at originality
依葫芦画瓢
yī hú lu huà piáo
  1. 1 lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification
保家卫国
bǎo jiā wèi guó
  1. 1 guard home, defend the country (idiom); national defense
倾国倾城
qīng guó qīng chéng
  1. 1 lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful
  3. 3 also written 傾城傾國|倾城倾国[qīng chéng qīng guó]
倾城倾国
qīng chéng qīng guó
  1. 1 lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful
两国相争，不斩来使
liǎng guó xiāng zhēng , bù zhǎn lái shǐ
  1. 1 when two kingdoms are at war, they don't execute envoys (idiom)
勤俭建国
qín jiǎn jiàn guó
  1. 1 to build up the country through thrift and hard work (idiom)
周游列国
zhōu yóu liè guó
  1. 1 to travel around many countries (idiom); peregrinations
  2. 2 refers to the travels of Confucius
丧权辱国
sàng quán rǔ guó
  1. 1 to forfeit sovereignty and humiliate the country (idiom)
  2. 2 to surrender territory under humiliating terms
国家兴亡，匹夫有责
guó jiā xīng wáng , pǐ fū yǒu zé
  1. 1 The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
国弱民穷
guó ruò mín qióng
  1. 1 the country weakened and the people empoverished (idiom)
国泰民安
guó tài mín ān
  1. 1 the country prospers, the people at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
国破家亡
guó pò jiā wáng
  1. 1 the country ruined and the people starving (idiom)
国色天香
guó sè tiān xiāng
  1. 1 national grace, divine fragrance (idiom); an outstanding beauty
天香国色
tiān xiāng guó sè
  1. 1 divine fragrance, national grace (idiom); an outstanding beauty
富可敌国
fù kě dí guó
  1. 1 having wealth equivalent to that of an entire nation (idiom)
  2. 2 extremely wealthy
富国强兵
fù guó qiáng bīng
  1. 1 lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times
  2. 2 Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)

Sample Sentences

哦，我想起来了，我在很多书法和中国画上面看到过这个。
ò ，wǒ xiǎng qǐlái le ，wǒ zài hěn duō shūfǎ hé Zhōngguó huà shàngmian kàndào guo zhè gè 。
Oh, I remember now. I've seen these on lots of calligraphy and Chinese paintings.
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是啊，学学国画，丰富一下老年生活嘛。
shì a ，xué xue guóhuà ，fēngfù yīxià lǎonián shēnghuó ma 。
That's right. Studying traditional painting can enrich one's life in old age.
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老郑，听说你参加了区里的国画班。
Lǎo Zhèng ，tīngshuō nǐ cānjiā le qū lǐ de guóhuà bān 。
Mr. Zheng, I heard you're taking a traditional painting class
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国画，因为我小时候学过书法。
guóhuà ，yīnwèi wǒ xiǎo shíhou xué guo shūfǎ 。
Chinese traditional painting, because when I was young I studied calligraphy.
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我也不知道。选择太多了！国画、油画、水彩、素描......
wǒ yě bù zhīdào 。xuǎnzé tài duō le ！guóhuà 、yóuhuà 、shuǐcǎi 、sùmiáo ......
I don't know. There is so much to choose from! Traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, watercolor, drawing...
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