华

See also: 華

华 U+534E, 华 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-534E ← 卍 [U+534D] CJK Unified Ideographs 协 → [U+534F]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

华 (Kangxi radical 24, 十+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人心十 (OPJ), four-corner 2440₁, composition ⿱化十)

Derived characters

• 哗, 𫰡, 㟆, 𫺆, 𫼧, 骅, 晔, 桦, 烨, 𮧵, 𬑓, 铧, 𮕽, 𫚘, 𫖇, 𪉊

Related characters

• 華 (Traditional form of 华)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 156, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 60, character 17
• Unihan data for U+534E

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 化 + semantic 十 (“stalk and leaves”). The top component in 華／华 has been simplified to a phonetic element 化 (huà).

This character first appeared in the 1956 Chinese Character Simplification Scheme by the People's Republic of China and is not known to have existed prior to that.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 华 – see 華 (“brilliance; magnificence; times; years; period; etc.”). (This character, 华, is the simplified form of 華.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03503-020