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Mythic Mandarin

青花 (qīng huā): meaning and stroke order

青花 (qīng huā) means blue and white (porcelain).

青花

Simplified
青花
Traditional
青花 (same form)
Pinyin
qīng huā

Stroke order of 青花

青

  • Qīng abbr. for 青海[Qing1 hai3], Qinghai Province
  • qīng green; blue
  • 8 strokes

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 青花

  1. qīng huā
    • blue and white (porcelain)

Radicals of the characters

青
Radical 靑 (Kangxi radical 174) · 8 strokes · 龶 on top, 月 below
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.

青花 in our stories

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  • 一天下午，一位中年女士抱着一个布包走进店里。布包里是一只摔成了五块的青花碗。

    yì tiān xiàwǔ yí wèi zhōngnián nǚshì bào zhe yí gè bùbāo zǒu jìn diàn lǐ bùbāo lǐ shì yì zhī shuāi chéng le wǔ kuài de qīnghuā wǎn

    One afternoon a middle-aged woman came in carrying a cloth bundle. Inside was a blue-and-white bowl broken into five pieces.

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

Stories using 青花

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).