花
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Translingual[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艹 + phonetic 化
Han character[edit]
花 (radical 140 艸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 廿人心 (TOP), four-corner 44214, composition ⿱艹化)
Derived characters[edit]
References[edit]
- 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[edit]
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| simp. and trad. |
花 | |
Pronunciation[edit]
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): faa1
- Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): fâ
- Min Nan (POJ): hoe / hoa
- Wu (WT Romanisation): ho (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚ
- Wade-Giles: hua1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hua
- IPA (key): /xu̯a̠⁵⁵/
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(file)
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing, erhua-ed) (花兒／花儿)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚㄦ
- Wade-Giles: huarh1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hual
- IPA (key): /xwɑɻ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: faa1
- Yale: fā
- Cantonese Pinyin: faa1
- IPA (key): /fɑː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- Romanisations:
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fâ
- IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /fa²⁴/
- Romanisations:
- Min Nan
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- WT Romanisation: ho (T1)
- IPA (key): /ho⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Middle Chinese pronunciation (花, reconstructed) | ||||||
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| Character (花), Pronunciation 1/1 | ||||||
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Initial: 曉 (32) |
Openness: Closed |
Fanqie: 呼瓜切 | ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
Bernard Karlgren |
Li Rong |
Pan Wuyun |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
Wang Li |
Shao Rongfen |
| /hɣua/ | /xwa/ | /xua/ | /hʷɯa/ | /hwaɨ/ | /xwa/ | /xua/ |
| Old Chinese pronunciation (花, reconstructed) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Character | Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 花 | huā | ‹ xwæ › | /*qʷʰˤra/ | flower (n.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:
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| Character | No. | Phonetic component |
Rime group |
Rime subdivision |
Corresponding MC rime |
Old Chinese | Notes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 花 | 5326 | 化 | 魚 | 0 | 華 | /*hʷraː/ | 俗與華通用 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Noun[edit]
- (Beginning Chinese) flower; blossom
- pattern, design
- fireworks
- essence, cream
- wound
- smallpox
- courtesan, prostitute
Verb[edit]
花
Adjective[edit]
花
Proper noun[edit]
花
Compounds[edit]
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Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
花
Readings[edit]
Compounds[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Old Japanese.
Pronunciation[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
- a flower; a blossom
- flower arrangement
- Japanese playing cards
- the best days of one's life
- the best thing
- essence
Derived terms[edit]
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
花 (hwa)
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 화 (revised: hwa, McCune-Reischauer: hwa, Yale: hwa)
- Name (hangeul): 꽃 (revised: kkot, McCune-Reischauer: kkot, Yale: kkoch)
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Han character[edit]
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