huì
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 plants
  2. 2 flowers (collective term)

Examples

花园奇花异卉
Huāyuán lǐ zhòng mǎn le qíhuāyìhuì.
The garden is full of rare and exotic flowers and plants.
Tā cóngshì huāhuì shēngyi, mài pénzāi lǜzhí.
She works in the flower and plant trade, selling potted greenery.

Tips

usage
is a collective word for plants and flowers, not a single bloom. The everyday compound is 花卉 (flowers and ornamental plants), used in gardening and the nursery trade.

Components

ideograph
shí
ten
The top stroke-cross is a stylized residue of a sprouting shoot, not the number ten. Together with the grass below it builds the picture of clustered growing plants.
semantic
cǎo
grass; plants
The grass form at the base, picturing growing stalks. It carries the core meaning: is many plants together, a thicket of green.

Stroke Order

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