桦 (huà): (botany) birch (genus Betula)
桦 (huà) is a Chinese character meaning “(botany) birch (genus betula).” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 木 (semantic) and 华 (phonetic). It ranks #4166 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 桦 tree. Its radical form 木 (tree) appears in many related characters such as 木 (mù, wood/tree), 林 (lín, forest, woods), 森 (sēn, forest (dense)).
Definitions
- (botany) birch (genus Betula)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 桦树noun | huà shù | birch |
| 桦木noun | huà mù | birch |
| 桦木科 | huà mù kē | Betulaceae (broadleaf tree family including birch and alder) |
| 桦南县 | huà nán xiàn | Huanan, a county in Jiamusi City 佳木斯市, Heilongjiang |
| 桦南 | huà nán | see 樺南縣|桦南县 |
| 黑桦 | hēi huà | Betula dahurica |
| 桦川县 | huà chuān xiàn | Huachuan, a county in Jiamusi City 佳木斯市, Heilongjiang |
| 桦甸市 | huà diàn shì | Huadian, a county-level city in Jilin City 吉林市, Jilin |
| 桦川 | huà chuān | see 樺川縣|桦川县 |
| 桦甸proper-noun | huà diàn | see 樺甸市|桦甸市 |
桦 appears in 10 compound words: 90 as the first character, 10 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 桦 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
新华社记者 宋彦桦 摄 20日，巴斯玛赢得了女子太极拳太极剑全能赛铜牌。
xīn huá shè jì zhě sòng yàn huà shè 2 0 rì , bā sī mǎ yíng dé le nǚ zǐ tài jí quán tài jí jiàn quán néng sài tóng pái .
Photo by Song Yanhua, Xinhua News Agency. On the 20th, Basma won the bronze medal in the women’s Taijiquan and Taijijian combined event.
法国组合勒布伦兄弟以3:0战胜中国香港组合黄镇廷/陈颢桦夺得男双冠军。
fǎ guó zǔ hé lè bù lún xiōng dì yǐ 3 : 0 zhàn shèng zhōng guó xiāng gǎng zǔ hé huáng zhèn tíng chén 颢 huà duó dé nán shuāng guàn jūn .
The French duo, the Lebrun brothers, defeated the Hong Kong, China pair of Wong Chun Ting and Chan Ho Wah 3–0 to claim the men's doubles title.
一位年轻读者捧起白桦树汁笑着说。
yī wèi nián qīng dú zhě pěng qǐ bái huà shù zhī xiào zhe shuō .
A young reader picked up a cup of birch sap and smiled.
来自山东的游客白桦表示。
lái zì shān dōng de yóu kè bái huà biǎo shì .
"Bai Hua, a tourist from Shandong, said."
Character Family
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