风景画 (fēng jǐng huà) — landscape painting | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

landscape painting

Measure word · 幅

Examples

风景画。
Zhè fú fēng jǐng huà hěn měi.
This landscape painting is very beautiful.
风景画。
Tā shōu cáng le hěn duō fēng jǐng huà.
He has collected many landscape paintings.
风景画。
Wǒ yé ye shì yí wèi fēng jǐng huà dà shī.
My grandfather is a master of landscape painting.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

风景scenery

风fēngwind景jǐngscene

联合Side by side

画huàpainting

风景 combines 风 and 景 to mean scenery; with 画 it names a painting of scenery.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

日京景

Meaning part形符xíngfú

日日rìsun

Sound part声符shēngfú

京

京jīng景jǐng

Same sound today

景 has 日 (sun) with 京, which gives its sound; it originally meant sunlight.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 畫; 画 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

聿聿yùbrush

Sound part声符shēngfú

規

規guī畫huà

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 畫 pairs 聿, a brush, with 規 for its sound. The simplified 画 is a later shorthand, so its parts are not the old parts.

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