芳华

芳華

fānghuá

noun

Meanings

HSK 7-9

她把最好的芳华献给了山区的孩子。

Tā bǎ zuì hǎo de fānghuá xiàngěi le shānqū de háizi.

She gave the best years of her youth to children in the mountains.

HSK 7-9

当年在边疆度过芳华的知青，如今已经头发花白。

Dāngnián zài biānjiāng dùguò fānghuá de zhīqīng, rújīn yǐjīng tóufa huābái.

The educated youth who spent their prime on the frontier are now gray at the temples.

芳华 is literary and warm, used of youth looked back on. The everyday word is 青春.

芳华 Fānghuá

Youth

Feng Xiaogang's 2017 film from Yan Geling's novel, following young dancers in an army art troupe through the 1970s and into middle age.

芳 fāng

华 huá