花
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flower; blossom; CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4]; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 艸 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 花
- Common rank
- #37
- Unicode
- U+82B1
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Formation & memory
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How 花 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A flower 艹 in bloom 化; 化 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
flower · Heisig RSH #833
flower + 化 transform
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 花
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 花山区 | Huashan, a district of Ma'anshan City 馬鞍山市|马鞍山市[Ma3 an1 shan1 Shi4], Anhui | |
| 花子 | beggar (old term) | |
| 国花 | national flower (emblem, e.g. peony 牡丹[mu3 dan1] in China) | |
| 花山 | see 花山區|花山区[Hua1 shan1 Qu1] | |
| 水花 | spray of water; splash; (dialect) chickenpox | |
| 花头 | trick; pattern; novel idea; knack | |
| 花心 | fickle in love; unfaithful; heart of a flower (pistil and stamen) | |
| 花生 | peanut; CL:粒[li4] | |
| 花儿 | style of folk song popular in Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia; CL:首[shou3] | |
| 花儿 | erhua variant of 花[hua1] | |
| 天花 | smallpox; ceiling; stamen of corn; (old) snow; (dialect) sesame oil | |
| 小花 | (coll.) popular young actress | |
| 花花公子 | playboy | |
| 花海 | sea of flowers; expanse of flowers | |
| 花白 | grizzled (hair) | |
| 白花花 | shining white | |
| 花会 | flower fair or festival | |
| 大理花 | dahlia (loanword) | |
| 开花儿 | erhua variant of 開花|开花[kai1 hua1] | |
| 花点子 | trickery; scam |