Discussion of 画幅/畫幅 [huà fú] painting, picture; size of a picture

Discussion of 画幅/畫幅

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I’m seeing yì fú huà in Rosetta Stone for picture. I don’t see this exact arrangement of the words as a phrase or word in here though. I expected to see fú huà by itself but found this instead. Is this the correct way if not indicative of the plurality or simply “a” singular?

CramerPDX

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Hi, the phrase you are looking for already exists in our dictionary. Please see: 一幅画 / 一幅畫 [yi4 fu2 hua4] , (phr) a picture, a painting
Note that this is phrase made up of: a numeral (一), a measure word (幅) and a noun (画).

As for this word below:
画幅 / 畫幅 [hua4 fu2] , (n) painting, picture; size of a picture
This is a noun and it has two meanings. The first meaning "painting, picture" is a collective noun, and the second meaning is "size of a picture".

You noticed that 画幅 is composed of the noun 画 and the measure word 幅 which comes after 画. In the Chinese language there are a lot of nouns formed this way. Please see the examples below: the numeral-measure word phrases are on the left, and on the right it's the corresponding collective nouns:
一幅画, 画幅
一辆车，车辆
一只船，船只
一本书，书本
一张纸，纸张
一匹马，马匹
一朵花，花朵
...， ...

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