蓼花

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Chinese

		luxuriant growth; polygonum; smartweed	flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
trad. (蓼花)		蓼	花
simp. ^#(蓼花)		蓼	花
anagram		花蓼

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): liǎohuā

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚ
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lio̍k-hoa

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: liǎohuā
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: liǎohua
  - Wade–Giles: liao³-hua¹
  - Yale: lyǎu-hwā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leauhua
  - Palladius: ляохуа (ljaoxua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lio̍k-hoa
  - Tâi-lô: lio̍k-hua
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lioghoaf
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /liɔk̚⁴⁻³² hua⁴⁴/

Noun

蓼花

(botany) knotweed flower; smartweed flower (the (usually pink) flower of various plants in the family Polygonaceae, especially in the genera Polygonum and Persicaria)

Pronunciation 2

		luxuriant growth; polygonum; smartweed	flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
trad. (蓼花)		蓼	花
simp. ^#(蓼花)		蓼	花
alternative forms		荖花 Hokkien
anagram		花蓼

Mandarin
(Pinyin): liǎohuā

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚ
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): láu-hoe

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: liǎohuā
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: liǎohua
  - Wade–Giles: liao³-hua¹
  - Yale: lyǎu-hwā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leauhua
  - Palladius: ляохуа (ljaoxua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: láu-hoe
  - Tâi-lô: láu-hue
  - Phofsit Daibuun: law'hoef
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hue⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hue³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hue⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hue⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hue⁴⁴/

Noun

蓼花

(Hokkien, Taiwanese Mandarin) sugarcoated hollow puffed rice confection

See also

米粩
麻粩 / 麻米粩仔

Further reading

Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “láu-hoe”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 296; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 296
小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “蓼花”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC

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