0140 - 花[화] - 꽃 - flower; blossoms

The Story [이야기] :

• This is a pictophonetic character.  "Grass/Plant" 艹 suggests the meaning, while 化[화] suggests the sound.  The character 化 means "to transform/to become".  When the sunflower seed 艹 matures and grows, it will become 化 a sunflower.

Stroke Order [획순] :

New Vocabulary [새로운 단어] :

화초 [花草] - flowers; flowering plants
생화 [生花] - a natural flower; a real flower
국화 [國花] - a national flower
목화 [木花] - a cotton plant; a cotton wool tree; cotton
초화 [草花] - a flowering plant
화목 [花木] - a flower plant; a flowering plant; a flowering tree
백화 [百花] - all sorts of flowers
백화왕 [百花王] - the peony; Paeonid suffruticosa

 

Example Sentences [예문] :

방글라데시의 國花는 百합이고 國家 상징 動物은 로얄 벵갈 호랑이입니다.
The lily is the national flower of Bangladesh, and the national animal is the Royal Bengal Tiger.