花
Translingual
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艹 + phonetic 化
Han character
花 (radical 140 艸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 廿人心 (TOP), four-corner 44214, composition ⿱艹化)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 1020, character 21
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30734
- Dae Jaweon: page 1478, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3181, character 7
- Unihan data for U+82B1
Cantonese
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Kanji
Readings
Compounds
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Etymology
From Old Japanese.
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
Noun
- a flower; a blossom
- flower arrangement
- Japanese playing cards
- the best days of one's life
- the best thing
- essence
Derived terms
- 木花之開耶姫 (このはなのさくやひめ, Konohananosakuya-hime)
Korean
Hanja
花
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 화 (revised: hwa, McCune-Reischauer: hwa, Yale: hwa)
- Name (hangeul): 꽃 (revised: kkot, McCune-Reischauer: kkot, Yale: kkoch)
Mandarin
Pronunciation
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Hanzi
花 (pinyin huā (hua1), Wade-Giles hua1)
Compounds
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Min Nan
Hanzi
花 (POJ hoe (hoe1), hoa (hoa1), he (he1))
Noun
Verb
- to be confusing
- to cheat by making something confusing
- to be perverse
- to cut something with kitchen knife
- shake hand(s) or foot/feet tentatively
Adjective
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