国画 guóhuà traditional Chinese painting
怎么记住“国画”: 国 country + 画 drawing = traditional Chinese painting.
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- 国画 (guóhuà) is the noun for traditional Chinese ink-and-brush painting, as a genre or art form.
- Common pattern: 画国画 (huà guóhuà) - to paint a guohua, or 学国画 (xué guóhuà) - to study Chinese painting.
- Contrasts with 油画 (yóuhuà, oil painting) and 西画 (xīhuà, Western-style painting) - 国画 is the term used precisely to mark the style as native Chinese.
- It names the art form itself, not a single picture - for one painting you'd still say 一幅国画 (yī fú guóhuà), using the measure word 幅.