華
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TranslingualEdit
Han characterEdit
華 (radical 140, 艸+8 in traditional Chinese, 艸+7 in mainland China and Japanese, 12 strokes in Chinese in traditional Chinese, 11 strokes in Korean, 10 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿一廿十 (TMTJ), four-corner 44504, composition ⿱艹⿻丅⿱艹二)
Derived charactersEdit
- 𠎑, 嘩(哗), 墷, 嬅(𫰡), 㠏(㟆), 𭘲, 㦊(𫺆), 撶(𫼧), 澕, 璍, 曄(晔), 𦠜, 樺(桦), 燁(烨), 皣, 瞱(𬑓), 𬒢, 䅿, 𬚦, 𧑍, 㒯, 譁, 𨅯, 鏵(铧), 鞾(𫖇), 韡(𮧵), 驊(骅), 𩻮(𫚘), 𫛓, 𪟥, 鷨(𪉊), 𡪤, 曅, 𨶱
Related charactersEdit
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 1039, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31119
- Dae Jaweon: page 1497, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3213, character 1
- Unihan data for U+83EF
ChineseEdit
| trad. | 華 | |
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| simp. | 华 | |
Glyph originEdit
| Historical forms of the character 華 | ||
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| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (華) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 鞾 | *qʰʷa |
| 華 | *qʰʷraː, *ɡʷraː, *ɡʷraːs |
| 譁 | *qʰʷraː |
| 樺 | *ɡʷraː, *ɡʷraːs |
| 嘩 | *ɡʷraː |
| 驊 | *ɡʷraː |
| 鏵 | *ɡʷraː |
| 崋 | *ɡʷraː, *ɡʷraːs |
Pictogram (象形); this was the original form of 花 (OC *hʷraː, “flower”). In the bronze inscription form, the top part of the glyph resembles flowers of a plant, and the bottom part (于) resembles its stalk and leaves. Also phono-semantic (形聲), with 于 (OC *ɢʷa) functioning as the phonetic part. In the seal script, 艸 (“grass; plant”) was added as a semantic component.
華 (𦻏) and 𠌶 were initially the same character, but they were erroneously split in Shuowen into two entries.
Pronunciation 1Edit
DefinitionsEdit
華
- brilliance; magnificence
- (good) times; years; period
- young; youthful
- literary grace; talent for literature
- prestige; status; fame
- colourful; brilliant (especially of carvings and decorations)
- magnificent; gorgeous; resplendent
- delicious; tasty
- essence; quintessence
- (honorific) your; your honourable
- (exalted) Short for 華夏／华夏 (Huáxià): land of illustrious clothing and grand ritual—China; Chinese culture
- Short for 漢語／汉语 (hànyǔ, “Chinese language”).
- luxuriant; flourishing; prosperous
- noble; influential; eminent
- yellow (colour)
- pink; rosy
- grey (of hair)
- flashy; extravagant; showy; ostentatious; florid
- (historical) cover of a carriage
- fruit (of a cucurbit plant)
- (geology) sinter
- (chemistry) chemical produced via sublimation
- (astronomy) corona; ring of light
- Alternative form of 譁 (“noisy”).
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 華
Pronunciation 2Edit
DefinitionsEdit
華
- Alternative form of 花 (huā, “flower; blossom”).
- to flower; to blossom
- (traditional Chinese medicine) flower pulse; weak pulse
- to be dim-sighted; to be dazzled
- to dissect; to cut up
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 華
Pronunciation 3Edit
DefinitionsEdit
華
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 華
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
華
ReadingsEdit
- Goon: け (ke, Jōyō, uncommon); げ (ge)
- Kan’on: か (ka, Jōyō)←くわ (kwa, historical)
- Kun: はな (hana, 華, Jōyō); はなやか (hanayaka, 華やか)
NounEdit
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KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
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