# 花 flower

(flowertop) + 化 (transform) Same-ON
★★★★★
7 strokes
DUPE PN MR

## Mutants

| flowertop

## Onyomi

KA |

## Mnemonic

| You can think of the top part as the bottom of your nose, with 2 little puffs of pollen going in as you smell the flower. the Wizard transforms your CAR into a flower. (Actually the wizard's kind of a hater.)

## Kunyomi

はな | flower ★★★★★

## Jukugo

花見(はなみ) | sakura-viewing party ★★★☆☆ KUNKUN 花 (flower) + 見 (look) = 花見 (sakura-viewing party) cherry-blossom looking-at-and-getting-bombed parties
花火(はなび) | fireworks ★★☆☆☆ KUNKUN 花 (flower) + 火 (fire) = 花火 (fireworks)

## Lookalikes

| Meaning | Hint | Radical
--- | --- | --- | ---
花 | flower | POLLEN |
死 | death | EVENING | 夕

For the sake of this mnemonic, let's call the 2 vertical strokes on the flower's top radical . . . 2 spores of pollen.

The poison flower has POLLEN that you're breathing,

and then it makes you die in the EVENING.

## Used In

- 花
- 苦
- 草
- 荷
- 夢
- 蒸
- 蓄
- 芋
- 著
- 護
- 描
- 満
- 菓
- 猫
- 獲
- 葬
- 芸
- 噴
- 英
- 菌
- 憤
- 薬
- 芝
- 荒
- 若
- 遭
- 敬
- 落
- 備
- 蔵
- 菜
- 薄
- 搭
- 華
- 茶
- 塔
- 葉

## Synonyms

flower 花 華
prostitute 売春婦 街娼 花魁