漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
花: flower
JLPT N47 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
艹 carries the meaning · 化 gives the sound
7 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
カka · on'yomi · in compounds
- 花壇かだんflower bed
- 花瓶かびんvase
- 造花ぞうかartificial flowers
- 花粉かふんpollen
- 開花するかいかするbloom
はなhana · kun'yomi · on its own
- 花はなflower
- 花屋はなやflorist
- 生け花いけばなflower arrangement
- 花嫁はなよめbride
- 花火はなびfireworks
- お花見おはなみcherry-blossom viewing
- 草花くさばなplants and flowers
Also read ケ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)艸 grass; plant, as 艹 (meaning) + 化 (sound)
Originally 𠌶 or 華 before the Han dynasty.
Source: Wiktionary, 花 (rev. 93473145), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Grass radical + transform (化) = the part of a plant that transforms and blooms into beauty.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · huā
Same form: 花 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 花 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 花 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin huā most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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