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葩

pā
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 flower; blossom
  2. 2 corolla of a flower

Examples

奇葩形容独特出众的事物。
Qípā xíngróng dútè chūzhòng de shìwù.
"A rare and wonderful flower" describes something uniquely splendid.
园子里开满了奇花异葩。
Yuánzi lǐ kāi mǎn le qí huā yì pā.
The garden was full of strange and beautiful flowers.

Tips

usage
葩 means a splendid flower. In modern Chinese it survives mostly in 奇葩, literally "rare flower", now also a slangy word for someone or something bizarre.

Components

radical
艹 cǎo
grass; plant
艹 is the grass radical, marking 葩 as a flowering plant.
semantic
白 bái
white
白 sits above 巴 to form the phonetic body. It loosely evokes pale petals, but its main job here is shaping the sound element of 葩.
phonetic
巴 bā
to cling to; (sound element)
巴 under 白 carries the sound (bā shifted to pā). The white-over-cling pair together act as the phonetic of 葩.

Stroke Order

葩 pā