Radical 凵

8 strokes

畫

one 一 (1) + field 田 (156a) + pit 凵 (626a) = drawing 画

画儿 (21) huàr picture, drawing

[画报 (562) huàbào pictorial (magazine)]

The unicorn had fallen into the pit in the field (that they had dug as an elephant trap). the reporter (in the days before photography) took ages to make a drawing of the scene for the local paper. / The ghostly dwarf guarding the pit suggested attaching a harness to the unicorn to lift him out.