"Drawing" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 huì huà drawing / painting
 tú zhǐ blueprint / drawing / design plans / graph paper
 huì tú to draw / to draft / drawing / drafting
 tú huà drawing / picture
 huà r picture / drawing / painting
 tú diagram / picture / drawing / chart / map / CL:張|张[zhang1] / to plan / to scheme / to attempt / to pursue / to seek
 bìng tiáo drawing (textile industry)
 lā zhì drawing (manufacturing process in which hot metal or glass is stretched)
 kè tīng drawing room (room for arriving guests) / living room / CL:間|间[jian1]
线 xiàn tiáo line (in drawing, calligraphy etc) / the lines or contours of a three-dimensional object (hairstyle, clothing, car etc)
 xuàn rǎn rendering (computing) / to add washes of ink or color to a drawing (Chinese painting) / to exaggerate / to embellish
 yuán tú original drawing, map or picture (as opposed to a copy or a modified version)
 xiě shēng to sketch from nature / to do a still life drawing
 cǎo tú a sketch / rough drawing
 bǐ chù brush stroke in Chinese painting and calligraphy / brushwork / style of drawing or writing
 huà fǎ painting technique / drawing method
 bǐ fǎ technique of writing / calligraphy / or drawing
线 xiàn tú line drawing / diagram / line graph
 gōng chéng tú engineering graphics / technical drawing
 bá sī wire drawing / candied floss (cooking) / spun sugar or toffee (coating)
 bǐ lì vigor of strokes in calligraphy or drawing / vigor of style in literary composition
 bái miáo line drawing in traditional ink and brush style / simple and straightforward style of writing
 tòu shì tú perspective drawing
 dà yàng arrogant / full-page proofs (of newspaper) / detailed drawing
 zhǐ huáng jīn gold contract / special drawing right (SDR) / paper gold (finance)
 sān jiǎo bǎn set square / triangle (for drawing right angles)
 zhào māo huà hǔ lit. drawing a tiger using a cat as a model (idiom) / fig. to follow a model and get things more or less right but without capturing the spirit of the subject / uninspired imitation
 xiě yì huà freehand drawing or painting in traditional Chinese style
 háo hair / drawing brush / (in the) least / one thousandth / currency unit, 0.1 yuan
 qiān inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag
 diàn nǎo fǔ zhù shè jì yǔ huì tú computer-aided design and drawing
线 huà xiàn bǎn ruler (used for drawing lines)
 gōng chéng tú xué engineering graphics / technical drawing
 tú shǒu huà freehand drawing
 tóu yǐng tú perspective drawing
 tè bié tí kuǎn quán special drawing rights (SDR), international currency of the IMF
 tòu shì huà perspective drawing
 tòu shì huà fǎ perspective drawing
  Drawing Clerk
  Legal Guide on Drawing up International Contracts for Construction of Industrial Works
 bān zhǐ ornamental thumb ring (originally a ring, often made from jade, worn by archers in ancient times to protect the right thumb when drawing a bowstring)
 rì bó Yān zī lit. the sun sets in Yanzi (idiom) / fig. the day is drawing to an end / the last days (of a person, a dynasty etc)
 rù guān xué theory proposed in 2019 on Chinese social media, centering on the idea of China replacing the United States as the dominant nation in a new world order, drawing an analogy with the Manchu overthrow of the Ming dynasty, achieved after the Qing army entered China via the Shanhai Pass 入關|入关[ru4 guan1]
 quān dìng to highlight sth by drawing a circle around it / (fig.) to designate / to delineate
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