Character Contained In References Comments
Simplified Traditional Ancient forms Archaic forms
traditional form

Variants
Phonetic
Semantic
Apparent
聿 一 田 ⿳聿田一
Mandarin
hua4, huo4
English
Definitions
to draw; painting; picture; delineate; drawing
Mnemonic
To write down 聿 the lines 一 of the fields 田
Etymology
Notes
The archaic form shows writing 聿 on a crisscrossed shape 乂 similar to 冓; later the bottom was changed to field 田 perhaps to indicate a map