huá, huà, huā
magnificent
Original meaning:
flower
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 𠌶 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "flower", now written as 花. The meaning later shifted to "blossoming", "flourishing" and "magnificent".

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernFreq. | Word | Meaning |
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Xinhua News Agency | ||
splendid | ||
Washington (name) | ||
luxurious | ||
talent |
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʷʰˤra | xwae | huā | flower (n.) |
*N-qʷʰˤra | hwae | huá | flower (v.); flowery (adj.) |
*[ɢ]ʷˤra-s | hwaeH | huà | [name of a mountain] |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 38.8916% of movies
783rd most common character in movies
412th most common character in books
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+83EF |
Shuowen | “華,榮也。从艸,从。” |
李学勤《字源》p.554-555
