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花 kanji
flower
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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On readings
カケ
Kun readings
はな
Variant forms
芲Words with 花
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —遠心花序centrifugal inflorescence
- —花芽形成flower bud formation
- —花粉管核pollen tube nucleus
- —花粉分析pollen analysis
- —落花流水mutual love; the love one shows to another person being returned
- —落花紛々blossoms falling in confusion
- —花紅柳緑red blossoms and green willows; beautiful scenery of spring; natural beauty; beauty of nature
- —花鳥諷詠the beauties of nature and the harmony that exists between it and man (as the key poetic theme of a haiku)
- —鏡花水月flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface; something that is visible but having no substance; the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words
- —槿花一日evanescent glory; passing prosperity
- —槿花一朝evanescent glory; passing prosperity
- —錦上添花adding a crowning touch of beauty (to); giving added luster (to); crowning beauty (honor, grace) with even greater glory
- —羞月閉花the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) the moon is abashed and flowers wilt
- —飛花落葉scattering of the blossoms and falling of the leaves; the impermanence of worldly things
- —閉月羞花charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; great beauty; (so beautiful that) the moon hides and flowers are abashed
- —柳暗花明beautiful scenery of spring; red-light district
- —柳巷花街red-light district; pleasure quarter
- —柳緑花紅red blossoms and green willows; beautiful scenery of spring; natural beauty; beauty of nature
- —春花秋月spring flowers and the autumn moon; beauty of nature as it changes from season to season
- —散形花序umbellate inflorescence; umbel (i.e. flower with a large number of flowers growing radially from a common center)