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天花

Mandarin · pinyin tiān huā

smallpox
ceiling
stamen of corn
(old) snow
(dialect) sesame oil

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天: tiān · sky, heaven; god, celestial
花: huā · flower; blossoms

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1–1 · tian1 hua1

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tin1 faa1

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noun

(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”)

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