图画
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drawing
🖼️ 图画 = 图 (diagram) + 画 (painting)
图 means chart or diagram; 画 means to paint or a painting. Together 图画 covers any drawing or picture. The 画 character itself depicts a hand drawing boundaries around a field — the original sense of marking out a scene.
图 — enclosure 囗 + 冬 (simplified from 啚)
Originally written 圖, showing an enclosure 囗 around 啚, a depiction of a granary or rural settlement on a map. The whole character meant a map or chart of demarcated territory. Meaning later broadened to picture, diagram, or to plan/scheme.
画 — hand 一 + field 田 + frame 凵
Originally a pictograph of a hand holding a brush drawing boundaries around a field, depicting the act of marking out land. The top once showed a brush (聿), and 田 represents the field being divided. Over time it came to mean 'to draw, paint' and also 'a stroke' in characters.