Variants: 華 - Taiwan, Japan, South Korea 华 - Mainland China
Origin: 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".
Definition: ① flowery ② illustrious ③ Chinese
Middle Chinese Reading: /*hwa/ Initial - laryngeal (喉) Final - none
Modern Readings: Mandarin - huá, huà, huā Japanese - カ ka, ケ ke, はな hana Korean - 빛날 화 binnal hwa, 들쭉날쭉한 모양 과 deuljjungnaljjukan moyang gwa Cantonese - faa1, waa4, waa6 Vietnamese - hoa
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[423/808] Four Versions of 華 “magnificent”
Variants:
華 - Taiwan, Japan, South Korea
华 - Mainland China
Origin: 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".
Definition:
① flowery
② illustrious
③ Chinese
Middle Chinese Reading:
/*hwa/
Initial - laryngeal (喉)
Final - none
Modern Readings:
Mandarin - huá, huà, huā
Japanese - カ ka, ケ ke, はな hana
Korean - 빛날 화 binnal hwa, 들쭉날쭉한 모양 과 deuljjungnaljjukan moyang gwa
Cantonese - faa1, waa4, waa6
Vietnamese - hoa
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References:
Booklet of the 808 Commonly Used Chinese Characters in China, Japan and the ROK - www.tcs-asia.org/en/data/publications_down.php?idx…
[CN] Trilateral Common Vocabulary Dictionary (3rd Edition) - www.tcs-asia.org/en/data/publications_down.php?idx…
Unihan Database on 華 - www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint…
[CN] Multi-function Chinese Character Database on 華 - humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?…
Chinese Character Wiki on 華 - dong-chinese.com/wiki/%E8%8F%AF
Official Readings of Jōyō Kanji - nihongo.monash.edu/jouyoureadings.html
[KR] Naver Hanja Dictionary on 華 - hanja.dict.naver.com/#/entry/ccko/6b0e148d026a4e52…
Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation’s Nôm Lookup Tool - nomfoundation.org/common/nom_details.php?codepoint…
CJKV Dict on 華 - cjkvdict.com/?search=%E8%8F%AF
Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters on 華,
季旭昇，2004《說文新證》，台北：藝文印書館印行，2014年9月第二版。 (p. 509)
[CN] ZDIC on Middle Chinese pronunciation of 華 (post used 王力's [Wang Li's] reconstruction) - www.zdic.net/zd/yy/zgy/%E8%8F%AF
Image Sources:
Character versions from ZDIC - www.zdic.net/hans/%E8%8F%AF
Evolution chart from 李學勤，2012《字源》，天津：天津古籍出版社，2013年7月2次印刷。 (p. 554-555)
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