梨花

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Chinese

		pear	flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
trad. (梨花)		梨	花
simp. ^#(梨花)		梨	花

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): líhuā

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˊ ㄏㄨㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁴ faa¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: líhuā
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˊ ㄏㄨㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: líhua
  - Wade–Giles: li²-hua¹
  - Yale: lí-hwā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lihua
  - Palladius: лихуа (lixua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li³⁵ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lei⁴ faa¹
  - Yale: lèih fā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁴ faa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: léi⁴ fa¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯²¹ faː⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: lij xwae

Rime
Character	梨	花
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	麻 (99)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	II
Fanqie	力脂切	呼瓜切
Baxter	lij	xwae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liɪ/	/hˠua/
Pan Wuyun	/li/	/hʷᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/ljɪ/	/xua/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/li/	/hwaɨ/
Li Rong	/li/	/xua/
Wang Li	/li/	/xwa/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li/	/xwa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lí	huā
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lei⁴	faa¹

Noun

梨花

pear blossom
- 忽如一夜春風來，千樹萬樹梨花開。
  忽如一夜春风来，千树万树梨花开。
  From: 8th century, 岑參 (Cen Shen), 白雪歌送武判官歸京 (A Song of White Snow in Farewell to Field-clerk Wu Going Home); translated by Witter Bynner
  Hū rú yī yè chūnfēng lái, qiān shù wàn shù líhuā kāi.
  Is like a spring gale, come up in the night,
  Blowing open the petals of ten thousand peartrees.

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (梨花):

→ Japanese: 梨花(りか) (rika)
→ Korean: 이화(梨花) (ihwa)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
梨	花
り Grade: 4	か Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) りか (Atamadaka – )
IPA^(key):

Noun

梨(り)花(か) • (rika) ^{←りくわ (rikwa)^?}

pear blossom

Proper noun

梨(り)花(か) • (Rika) ^{←りくわ (Rikwa)^?}

a female given name

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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