Chinese symbol for “tableau”
画面
huà miàn
Traditional: 畫面
scene; tableau; picture; image
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tableau is 画面 (huà miàn), defined as: scene; tableau; picture; image; screen (displayed by a computer); (motion picture) frame.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 画面.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 漫画 (漫畫) | màn huà | comics; cartoon; caricature |
| 动画 (動畫) | dòng huà | animation; cartoon |
| 计画 (計畫) | jì huà | variant of 计划 (jì huà) |
| 画家 (畫家) | huà jiā | painter; 个 (gè) |
| 绘画 (繪畫) | huì huà | to draw; to paint |
| 方面 | fāng miàn | respect; aspect |
| 里面 (裏面) | lǐ miàn | variant of 里面 (lǐ miàn) |
| 面积 (面積) | miàn jī | area (of a floor, piece of land etc); surface area |
See also: Japanese symbol for “tableau”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.