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天花

Mandarin · pinyin tiān huā

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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 4 senses · 1 Cantonese reading

tin1 faa1

Cantonese word readings for 天花. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

tin1 faa1

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(Buddhism) flower of the sky; divine flower, stated in the Lotus Sutra as of four kinds, two white and two red
(literary, poetic) snowflake; snow
(pathology) smallpox; variola
(abbreviation, alt-of) short for 天花板 (tiānhuābǎn, “ceiling”)