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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.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

画 huà
picture, painting, drawing; to draw
radical 102 ⽥ · 8 strokes
面 miàn
face; surface, side; plane, dimension
radical 176 ⾯ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 画面.

WordPinyinMeaning
漫画 (漫畫)màn huàcomics; cartoon; caricature
动画 (動畫)dòng huàanimation; cartoon
计画 (計畫)jì huàvariant of 计划 (jì huà)
画家 (畫家)huà jiāpainter; 个 (gè)
绘画 (繪畫)huì huàto draw; to paint
方面fāng miànrespect; aspect
里面 (裏面)lǐ miànvariant of 里面 (lǐ miàn)
面积 (面積)miàn jīarea (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.

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