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鲜花

xiānhuā

fresh flowers

HSK 4 · Topic “Plants and living things”
A bouquet in a vase
Memory picture

Characters in this word

鲜 xiān

Strokes
14
Radical
鱼 — fish
Made of
鱼 fish 羊 sheep, goat
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

花 huā

Strokes
7
Radical
艹 — grass, weed, plant, herb
Made of
艹 grass, weed, plant, herb 化 to change, to convert, to reform
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 我买鲜花。 Wǒ mǎi xiānhuā. I buy fresh flowers.
  • 鲜花很香。 Xiānhuā hěn xiāng. The fresh flowers smell very nice.
  • 桌上有鲜花。 Zhuō shàng yǒu xiānhuā. There are fresh flowers on the table.

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