flowers

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

皅 sound component

  Sound component

  

Evolution

葩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
葩 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
葩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

flowers; corolla of flower

Most common words with 葩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

奇葩

exotic flower

corolla of flower

奇葩异卉

rare and exotic flora (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5158th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+8469

Shuowen

“葩,華也。从艸,皅聲。”


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