華 — splendor, flower, petal

はな華 splendor

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+83EF Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1085 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1704 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

splendor
flower
petal
shine
luster
ostentatious
showy
gay
gorgeous

word

はな hana Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

華(はな) hana flower 華(はな) やか hanayaka gorgeous

か ka On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

豪(ごう) 華(か) gouka luxurious 中(ちゅう) 華(か) chuuka Chinese 華(か) 麗(れい) karei splendid 繁(はん) 華(か) hanka bustling 華(か) 人(じん) kajin Chinese person

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

艹 grass

丨 pole

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#140 艸 grass