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花
huā
1.
flower
2.
blossom
3.
CL:[[朵<duǒ>]], [[支<zhī>]], [[束<shù>]], [[把<bǎ>]], [[盆<pén>]], [[簇<cù>]]
4.
fancy pattern
5.
florid
6.
to spend (money, time)
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
乱花
luànhuā
to spend recklessly
供花
gònghuā
flower offering
冰花
bīnghuā
ice crystal
刨花
bàohuā
wood shavings
划花
huàhuā
engraving (on porcelain etc)
印花
yìnhuā
tax stamp
国花
guóhuā
national flower (emblem, e.g. peony [[牡丹<mǔdān>]] in China)
团花
tuánhuā
rounded embroidery design
压花
yāhuā
to emboss
天花
tiānhuā
smallpox
如花
rúhuā
flowery
寻花
xúnhuā
flower-viewing
弹花
tánhuā
to soften cotton fiber by fluffing
拷花
kǎohuā
to emboss
挑花
tiǎohuā
cross-stitch (embroidery)
捧花
pěnghuā
(wedding) bouquet
采花
cǎihuā
to pick flowers
探花
tànhuā
candidate who came third in the Han-lin examination
提花
tíhuā
Jacquard weave (machine weaving leaving protruding pattern)
插花
chāhuā
flower arranging
Example Sentences (7)
草绿了，那是生命的颜色；花开了，那是大自然的礼物。
Cǎo lǜ le, nà shì shēngmìng de yánsè; huā kāi le, nà shì dàzìrán de lǐwù.
The grass has turned green, that is the color of life; the flowers have bloomed, that is nature's gift.
Text 4
今天买的东西太多了。再说，这个月家里已经花了五千多了。
Jīntiān mǎi de dōngxi tài duō le. Zàishuō, zhège yuè jiālǐ yǐjīng huā le wǔ qiān duō le.
I bought too many things today. Besides, our family has already spent more than five thousand this month.
Text 2
当然是春天，天气不那么冷了，草和树都绿了，花也开了。
Dāngrán shì chūntiān, tiānqì bú nàme lěng le, cǎo hé shù dōu lǜ le, huā yě kāi le.
Of course it's spring, the weather isn't that cold anymore, the grass and the trees have turned green, and the flowers have bloomed too.
Text 3
相反，如果方法不对，可能花五倍甚至十倍的时间都不能完成任务，结果变成了“事倍功半”。
Xiāngfǎn, Rúguǒ fāngfǎ bú duì, Kěnéng huā wǔ bèi shènzhì shí bèi de shíjiān dōu bù néng wánchéng rènwù, Jiéguǒ biànchéng le "shì bèi gōng bàn".
On the contrary, if the method is wrong, it may take five times or even ten times as long and still not finish the task, resulting in "twice the effort for half the result".
Text 5
没错。上个星期光买沙发就花了两千多。
Mei cuo. Shang ge xingqi guang mai shafa jiu hua le liang qian duo.
That's right. Last week, just the sofa cost over two thousand.
Text 2
这次主要是因为我先做了比较难、比较复杂的题，结果花了太多时间，后面简单的题我没做完，可是时间来不及，最后只好放弃了。
Zhè cì zhǔyào shì yīnwèi wǒ xiān zuò le bǐjiào nán, bǐjiào fùzá de tí, jiéguǒ huā le tài duō shíjiān, hòumiàn jiǎndān de tí wǒ méi zuòwán, kěshì shíjiān lái bù jí, zuìhòu zhǐhǎo fàngqì le.
This time it was mainly because I first did the harder, more complex problems, which took too much time. After that I didn’t finish the easy ones, but there wasn’t enough time, and in the end I had to give up.
Text 2
但是我这个月信用卡里的钱已经花得差不多了。
Dànshì wǒ zhège yuè xìnyòngkǎ lǐ de qián yǐjīng huā de chàbùduō le.
But I've almost spent all the money on my credit card this month.
Text 1
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Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 3
- Character Frequency Rank
- 409
- Word Frequency Rank
- 573 of 84,292