huá, huà, huā
magnificent
Simplified form of 華. 化 is used here to represent the sound. The bottom component is a remnant from the traditional character 華.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 华
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Xinhua News Agency | ||
splendid | ||
Washington (name) | ||
luxurious | ||
talent |
Component uses
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 38.8916% of movies
783rd most common character in movies
412th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+534E |
Sources
李学勤《字源》p.554-555
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