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花

花

Translingual

Stroke order

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 花

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 花
Large seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (化) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
訛 *ŋʷaːl
吪 *ŋʷaːl
鈋 *ŋʷaːl
囮 *lu, *ŋʷaːl
魤 *ŋʷaːl
靴 *hʷa
貨 *hŋʷaːls
花 *hʷraː
化 *hŋʷraːls
杹 *hŋʷraːls
匕 *pilʔ, *hŋʷraːls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hʷraː) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 化 ‎(OC *hŋʷraːls).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 花
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 麻 (99)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 呼瓜切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hˠua/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hʷᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xua/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hwaɨ/
Li
Rong		 /xua/
Wang
Li		 /xwa/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xwa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huā
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 花
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huā
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xwæ ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʷʰˤra/
English flower (n.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 花
Reading # 1/1
No. 5326
Phonetic
component		 化
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 華
Old
Chinese		 /*hʷraː/
Notes 俗與華通用

Definitions

花

  1. flower; blossom   (Classifier: 朵 m; 支 m; 束 m; 把 m; 盆 m; 簇 m)
    花朵  ―  huāduǒ  ―  flower
  2. florid, flowery
  3. pattern, design
    松花蛋  ―  sōnghuādàn  ―  thousand-year-old egg
  4. blurred
    眼花  ―  yǎnhuā  ―  to have blurred vision
  5. fireworks
  6. essence, cream
  7. wound
  8. smallpox
  9. courtesan, prostitute
  10. to spend (money, time, etc.)
  11. profligate
  12. (slang) randy, lecherous
  13. (slang) to be horny; to womanize
  14. false
  15. (Cantonese) scratched
  16. A surname​. Hua

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

花

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. flower

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
花
はな
Grade: 1
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese.

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

花 ‎(hiragana はな, romaji hana)

  1. a flower; a blossom
  2. flower arrangement
  3. Japanese playing cards
  4. the best days of one's life
  5. the best thing
  6. essence

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

花 • ‎(hwa)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 화 (McCune-Reischauer: hwa, Yale: hwa)
  • Name (hangeul): 꽃 (revised: kkot, McCune-Reischauer: kkot, Yale: kkoch)
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Vietnamese

Han character

花 (hoa, huê, hân)

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