Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
Variants:
flower
Kun:
はな
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
578 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 花形 【ハナガタ】 floral pattern, flourish, ornament, star (actor, player, etc.)
  • 花園 【ハナゾノ】 flower garden
  • 献花 【ケンカ】 flower offering, floral tribute, laying flowers
  • 紅花 【ベニバナ】 safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), dyer's safflower
  • 花かご 【ハナカゴ】 flower basket, flower basket (or plate) used for flower-scattering rituals
  • 花瓶 【ケビョウ】 vase used to hold flower offerings (often made of gilded copper)
  • 天花 【テンゲ】 flowers that bloom in the heavens, paper flowers scattered before the Buddha's image

Kun reading compounds

  • 花 【はな】 flower, blossom, bloom, petal, cherry blossom, beauty, blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms), ikebana, hanafuda, (the) best, glorious, lovely
  • 花形 【はながた】 floral pattern, flourish, ornament, star (actor, player, etc.)
  • 菜の花 【なのはな】 rape blossoms, rapeseed flowers
  • 紅花 【べにばな】 safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), dyer's safflower

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hua1
Korean:
hwa

Spanish

  • flor

Portuguese

  • flor

French

  • fleur
43 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
70 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
9 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
551 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3909 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
328 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
81 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
481 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.18 Japanese for Busy People
255 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
255 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
314 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
641 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2740 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1405 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1894 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1018 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30734P Morohashi
2211 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4980 New Nelson (John Haig)
1009 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1084 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
69 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1956 2001 Kanji
3k4.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-4 SKIP code
4421.4 Four corner code
1-18-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
82b1 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
diamond (shape), water chestnut, rhombus
Kun:
ひし
On:
リョウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1229 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 菱亜鉛鉱 【リョウアエンコウ】 smithsonite, zinc spar, szaskaite, calamine, dry-bone ore
  • 菱花 【リョウカ】 water chestnut flower, water caltrop flower

Kun reading compounds

  • 菱 【ひし】 water caltrop (esp. Trapa japonica), water chestnut, caltrop (weapon)
  • 菱垣廻船 【ひがきかいせん】 large Japanese junk

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ling2
Korean:
reung

Spanish

  • castaño de agua
  • rombo
  • diamante

Portuguese

French

  • losange
  • mâcre nageante (trapa japonica)
  • rhombe
980 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3977 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1449 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2879 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2003 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1531 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
31219X Morohashi
5092 New Nelson (John Haig)
1517 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1635 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1967 2001 Kanji
3k8.20 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-8 SKIP code
2-4-8 SKIP code
4440.7 Four corner code
1-41-09 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
83f1 Unicode hex code