海棠

hǎitáng
noun #86,040

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 Chinese flowering crabapple
  2. 2 crabapple blossom

Examples

HSK 3
Chūntiān, gōngyuán lǐ de hǎitáng kāihuā le.
In spring the crabapples in the park came into bloom.
HSK 6
Gǔrén cháng yòng hǎitáng lái bǐyù měilì de nǚzǐ.
Poets of old often compared beautiful women to crabapple blossoms.

Tips

culture
A favourite flower of Chinese poets. 苏轼 wrote of lighting tall candles at night to keep looking at the crabapples, 只恐夜深花睡去, "afraid the flowers would fall asleep in the dark".

In Pop Culture

大鱼海棠 Dàyú hǎitáng
Big Fish & Begonia
2016 Chinese animated fantasy film about a girl from a spirit world who saves a boy reborn as a small fish.

Stroke Order

海 hǎi
棠 táng