| 1 | 画 | 畫 | huà | hua4 | to draw; picture; painting; Classifiers: 幅 | | |
| 2 | 画家 | 畫家 | huà jiā | hua4 jia1 | painter; Classifiers: 个 | | |
| 3 | 绘画 | 繪畫 | huì huà | hui4 hua4 | drawing; painting | | |
| 4 | 画面 | 畫面 | huà miàn | hua4 mian4 | scene; tableau; picture; image; screen (displayed by a computer); (motion picture) frame; field of view | | |
| 5 | 图画 | 圖畫 | tú huà | tu2 hua4 | drawing; picture | | |
| 6 | 壁画 | 壁畫 | bì huà | bi4 hua4 | mural (painting); fresco | | |
| 7 | 油画 | 油畫 | yóu huà | you2 hua4 | oil painting | | |
| 8 | 刻画 | 刻畫 | kè huà | ke4 hua4 | to portray | | |
| 9 | 漫画 | 漫畫 | màn huà | man4 hua4 | caricature; cartoon; Japanese manga | | |
| 10 | 作画 | 作畫 | zuò huà | zuo4 hua4 | to paint | | |
| 11 | 中国画 | 中國畫 | zhōng guó huà | Zhong1 guo2 hua4 | Chinese painting | | |
| 12 | 画法 | 畫法 | huà fǎ | hua4 fa3 | painting technique; drawing method | | |
| 13 | 画像 | 畫像 | huà xiàng | hua4 xiang4 | portrait; to do a portrait of sb | | |
| 14 | 笔画 | 筆畫 | bǐ huà | bi3 hua4 | strokes of a Chinese character | | |
| 15 | 画展 | 畫展 | huà zhǎn | hua4 zhan3 | art exhibition | | |
| 16 | 版画 | 版畫 | bǎn huà | ban3 hua4 | printmaking; a print | | |
| 17 | 画虎不成反类犬 | 畫虎不成反類犬 | huà hǔ bù chéng fǎn lèi quǎn | hua4 hu3 bu4 cheng2 fan3 lei4 quan3 | 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 | | |
| 18 | 依葫芦画瓢 | 依葫蘆畫瓢 | yī hú lu huà piáo | yi1 hu2 lu5 hua4 piao2 | lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom); fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification | | |
| 19 | 春画 | 春畫 | chūn huà | chun1 hua4 | erotic print; pornographic picture | | |
| 20 | 筹画 | 籌畫 | chóu huà | chou2 hua4 | variant of 筹划 | | |
| 21 | 插画 | 插畫 | chā huà | cha1 hua4 | illustration | | |
| 22 | 策画 | 策畫 | cè huà | ce4 hua4 | variant of 策划 | | |
| 23 | 分疆画界 | 分疆畫界 | fēn jiāng huà jiè | fen1 jiang1 hua4 jie4 | to mark boundaries (idiom) | | |
| 24 | 风景画 | 風景畫 | fēng jǐng huà | feng1 jing3 hua4 | Landscape painting | | |
| 25 | 风景如画 | 風景如畫 | fēng jǐng rú huà | feng1 jing3 ru2 hua4 | scenery as beautiful as a painting (idiom) | | |