brush-stroke, picture
画 centers on creating a visual representation: a picture, a drawing, or the individual brush-strokes that make one up.
movie; film; motion picture
video (esp. digital); video clip; clip
cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga
image; picture; portrait
plan; project; schedule; scheme; program; programme
planning; plan; project; arrangements
screen (of a TV, computer, etc.)
stroke (of a kanji)
(video) recording
painting; picture
painter; artist
division; section; compartment; block; plot; lot; partition; boundary
original picture
ground-breaking; revolutionary; unprecedented; epoch-making
taking part (in planning); participation
Western painting
Japanese film
fresco; mural; wall painting
woodcut; woodblock print; art print
art gallery (esp. artworks for sale); picture gallery
famous picture; masterpiece (painting)
to draw (a line)
master painter; great artist
caricature; cartoon; comics
画 originally depicted a field 田 with boundaries, later extended to mean drawing or planning. The modern form combines 一 (one) over 田 (field) inside 凵 (container), suggesting a delineated picture.
Imagine a single brush-stroke (一) outlining a field (田) inside a frame (凵), creating a picture.
For ガ, picture a gallery (ガ) filled with pictures, each one a 画.