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開花
简 开花 · 繁 開花Mandarin · pinyin kāi huā
Meanings
- to bloom; to blossom; to flower
- (fig.) to burst; to split open
- (fig.) to burst with joy
- (fig.) to spring up everywhere; to flourish
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1–1 · kai1 hua1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
hoi1 faa1
Cantonese word readings for 開花. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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verb
- (verb-object) to blossom; to bloom; to flower
- (figurative) to burst; to split open; to break open; to explode
- (figurative) to burst with joy; to smile happily
- (Mainland China, figurative) to spread over; to spring up; to rise (of an undertaking, experience, etc.)
- (colloquial) to be wounded and bleed profusely (of one's head)
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