hoạ

noun

• Catastrophe, disaster
  • Mưu thâm thì hoạ cũng thâm (tục ngữ): The disaster is proportionate to the design; the darker the design, the greater the disaster it invites (upon its author)
• misfortune
  • Hoạ vô đơn chí: Misfortunes never come singly
• painting
  • Cầm, kỳ, thi, họa: Music, chess, poetry, and painting (regarded as the four amusements or accomplishments of a feudal intellectual)

verb

• to draw; to paint; to delineate
  • họa sĩ: painter
• Answer (someone's poem) with another using the same rhyme and meter
• Perform in unison
• to accompany
  • Họa đàn: To perform in unison (on one instrument) with another instrument
• Respond