華

See also: 华 and 崋

Translingual

Han character

華 (radical 140 艸+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿一廿十 (TMTJ), four-corner 4450₄, composition ⿱艹𠦒)

1. flowery
2. illustrious
3. Chinese

Derived characters

• 墷 撶 嘩 (哗) 澕 嬅 璍 樺 (桦) 曄 (晔) 燁 (烨) 瞱 皣 譁 鏵 (铧) 鞾 (𫖇) 韡 驊 (骅) 𫛓 鷨 (𪉊) 曅

See also

• 草 乗

References

• KangXi: page 1039, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31119
• Dae Jaweon: page 1497, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3213, character 1
• Unihan data for U+83EF
• Standard Form by Ministry of Education of the Republic of China

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Chinese

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trad.		華
simp.		华

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huá (hua²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): hôa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: huá
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hua²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwa
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯a̠³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: waa⁴
    • Yale: wàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /wɑː²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hôa
    • Tâi-lô: huâ
    • IPA (Taipei): /hua²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hua¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (華, reconstructed)
Character (華), Pronunciation 1/3
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 麻 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 戸花切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦɣua/	/ɣwa/	/ɣua/	/ɦʷɯa/	/ɦwaɨ/	/ɣwa/	/ɣua/
Character (華), Pronunciation 2/3
Initial: 曉 (32) Final: 麻 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			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/
Character (華), Pronunciation 3/3
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 麻 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 胡化切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦɣuaH/	/ɣwaH/	/ɣuaH/	/ɦʷɯaH/	/ɦwaɨH/	/ɣwaH/	/ɣuaH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (華, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
華								huā								‹ xwæ ›								/*qʷʰˤra/								flower (n.)
華								huá								‹ hwæ ›								/*N-qʷʰˤra/								flower (v.); flowery (adj.)
華								huà								‹ hwæH ›								/*[ɢ]ʷˤra-s/								[name of a mountain]
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
華					5308					華					魚					0					華					/*qʰʷraː/
華					5312					華					魚					0					華					/*ɡʷraː/					說文於聲
華					5316					華					魚					0					摦					/*ɡʷraːs/					華山、同崋

Compounds

• 華北
• 華表
• 華彩
• 華誕
• 華燈
• 華東
• 華而不實
• 華爾茲
• 華髮
• 華蓋
• 華工
• 華貴
• 華里
• 華麗
• 華美
• 華南
• 華年
• 華僑 (huáqiáo)
• 華人
• 華氏溫度計
• 華絲葛
• 華文
• 華西
• 華夏
• 華嚴宗
• 華艳
• 華裔
• 華語
• 華中
• 華胄
• 中華
• 華埠 (huábù)

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Japanese

Kanji

華

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: け (ke), げ (ge)
• Kan’on: か (ka)
• Kun: はな (hana), はなやか (hanayaka)

Noun

華 (hiragana はな, romaji hana)

1. flower
2. splendor

Synonyms

• 花 (はな) (hana, “flower”)

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Korean

Hanja

華 (hwa) (hangeul 화, revised hwa, McCune-Reischauer hwa, Yale hwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

華 (hoa, hận)

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