hoạ

Từ điển Việt Anh (Vietnamese English Dictionary)

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

	[hoạ]
		catastrophe; disaster; misfortune
		to paint; to draw
			cầm, kỳ, thi, hoạ
			Music, chess, poetry, and painting (regarded as the four amusements or accomplishments of a feudal intellectual).
		to answer (someone's poem) with another using the same rhyme and meter
		to perform in unison
			hoạ đàn
			to perform in unison (on one instrument) with another instrument.
		to respond
			một người xướng muôn người họa
			one person raises something first and thousand people respond.