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Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of ナデシコ – see the following entry.
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| 【撫子】
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- 瞿麦: pink (any flower of the genus Dianthus); especially, the 河原撫子 (kawara nadeshiko, “fringed pink, large pink”, Dianthus superbus)
- Short for 撫子襲 (nadeshiko-gasane): a style of layering garments, with the front layer in the color of 紅梅 (kōbai, “red plum or apricot”), and the back with blue (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
- a style of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”), another name for 常夏 (tokonatsu)
- a lovable, caressable child
- a female given name
- a surname
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| (This term, ナデシコ (nadeshiko), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)
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