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Definition 2024
天花
天花
Chinese
day; sky; heaven | flower; blossom; to spend (money, time); fancy pattern
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simp. and trad. (天花) |
天 | 花 | |
Literally: “heaven flower”. |
Noun
天花
- (Buddhism) flower of the sky; divine flower, stated in the Lotus Sutra as of four kinds, two white and two red
- (literary, poetic) snowflake; snow
- (pathology) smallpox; variola
Synonyms
- (flower of the sky): 天華/天华, 空華/空华
- (snowflake): 雪花 (xuěhuā)
- (smallpox): 痘瘡/痘疮