梨花

梨花

Chinese

		pear	flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
trad. (梨花)		梨	花
simp. #(梨花)		梨	花

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): líhuā

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˊ ㄏㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁴ faa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: líhuā
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˊ ㄏㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: líhua
    • Wade–Giles: li²-hua¹
    • Yale: lí-hwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lihua
    • Palladius: лихуа (lixua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li³⁵ xwä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lei⁴ faa¹
    • Yale: lèih fā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁴ faa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: léi⁴ fa¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯²¹ faː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /liɪ  hˠua/

Rime
Character	梨	花
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	麻 (99)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	II
Fanqie	力脂切	呼瓜切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liɪ/	/hˠua/
Pan Wuyun	/li/	/hʷᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/ljɪ/	/xua/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/li/	/hwaɨ/
Li Rong	/li/	/xua/
Wang Li	/li/	/xwa/
Bernard Karlgren	/li/	/xwa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lí	huā
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lei4	faa1

Noun

梨花

1. pear blossom

   • 忽如一夜春風來，千樹萬樹梨花開。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     忽如一夜春风来，千树万树梨花开。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 8th century, 岑參 (Cen Shen), 白雪歌送武判官歸京 (A Song of White Snow in Farewell to Field-clerk Wu Going Home); translated by Witter Bynner

     Hū rú yī yè chūnfēng lái, qiān shù wàn shù líhuā kāi. [Pinyin]

     Is like a spring gale, come up in the night,
     Blowing open the petals of ten thousand peartrees.

Derived terms

梨花大鼓 梨花片 梨花雨

雨打梨花 梨花帶雨／梨花带雨 (líhuādàiyǔ) 梨花簡／梨花简

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (梨花):

• → Japanese: 梨花(りか) (rika)
• → Korean: 이화(梨花) (ihwa)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
梨	花
り Grade: 4	か Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
• (Tokyo) り​か [ríꜜkà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɾʲika̠]

Noun

梨(り)花(か) • (rika) ^{←りくわ (rikwa)?}

1. pear blossom

Proper noun

梨(り)花(か) • (Rika) ^{←りくわ (rikwa)?}

1. a female given name

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN