Tanım
•to blossom; to come into flower; to flower (of plants) · radiance; brilliance; splendour; lustre · a coloured halo around the sun or moon
Etimoloji
Pictogram (象形); this was the original form of 花 (OC *hʷraː, “flower”). In the bronze inscription form, the top part of the glyph resembles flowers of a plant, and the bottom part (于) resembles its stalk and leaves. Also phono-semantic (形聲 /形声), with 于 (OC *ɢʷa) functioning as the phonetic part. In the seal script, 艸 (“grass; plant”) was added as a semantic component. 華 (𦻏) and 𠌶 were initially…