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梅花 (méi huā): meaning and stroke order

梅花 (méi huā) means plum blossom, clubs ♣ (a suit in card games), (dialect) wintersweet.

梅花

Simplified
梅花
Traditional
梅花 (same form)
Pinyin
méi huā

Stroke order of 梅花

梅

  • Méi surname Mei
  • méi plum; plum flower
  • méi variant of 梅[mei2]
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 楳

Stroke by stroke

花

  • Huā surname Hua
  • huā flower; blossom
  • huā old variant of 花[hua1]
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 芲

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 梅花

  1. méi huā
    • plum blossom
    • clubs ♣ (a suit in card games)
    • (dialect) wintersweet

Radicals of the characters

梅
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 11 strokes · 木 on the left, 每 on the right
花
Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 8 strokes · 艹 on top, 化 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

梅花 in our stories

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  • 他没有把钉子排成一条直线，而是顺着裂缝的走向，用十三颗银钉拼出了一枝梅花。

    tā méiyǒu bǎ dīngzi pái chéng yì tiáo zhíxiàn érshì shùnzhe lièfèng de zǒuxiàng yòng shísān kē yín dīng pīn chū le yì zhī méihuā

    He didn't set the rivets in a straight line; following the run of the cracks, he used thirteen silver rivets to form a sprig of plum blossom.

    From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 梅花

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).