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花

huā

flower

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 化 represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

化 sound component

化  Sound component

huà, huā

  

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Definitions

花  

huā

flower; blossoms; blossom; CL:朵[duǒ],支[zhī],束[shù],把[bǎ],盆[pén],簇[cù]; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful

花  

Huā

surname Hua

花 (芲) 

huā

old variant of 花[huā]

花 (蘤) 

huā

variant of 花[huā]; also pr. [wěi]

Most common words with 花
Freq.
Word
Meaning

花

flower

花园

garden

花钱

to spend money

棉花

cotton

花费

expense

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʷʰˤra

xwae

huā

flower (n.)


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 78.8563% of movies

401st most common character in movies

410th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+82B1


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