Results for “花”

to burst with joy (idiom) / to be over the moon / to be elated

see 拈花惹草[niān huā rě cǎo]

see 沾花惹草[zhān huā rě cǎo]

lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom) / fig. to womanize / to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats

to emboss

floor with tiled design

cross-stitch (embroidery)

(fig.) to get cross-eyed / to be bewildered

(wedding) bouquet

to be wounded / (of plants) to bloom

to pick flowers / to enter houses at night in order to rape women

notorious rapist / serial rapist

rapist

candidate who came third in the Hanlin examination (cf. 狀元|状元[zhuàng yuán]) / (slang) to secretly film sex with a prostitute to share on the Internet

Jacquard weave (machine weaving leaving protruding pattern)

(of a plant) to shed pollen

to play tricks / to cheat / to deceive

erhua variant of 搞花樣|搞花样[gǎo huā yàng]

beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten – when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine etc)

(cookery) to decorate using a piping bag / to extrude something though a piping bag / piping

piping bag (cookery)

lit. to arrange a shelf of flowers / superficial display (idiom)

kapok (tree)

see 殘花敗柳|残花败柳[cán huā bài liǔ]

Convolvulaceae, herbaceous plant family

(botany) convolvulvus / Flos Inulae (Chinese herb)

lit. chrysanthemums after the Double Ninth Festival (idiom) / fig. outdated / thing of the past / dead letter

dim (eyesight) / blurred (vision)

(lit.) springtime when the weather is warm and flowers are in bloom (idiom) / (fig.) a time of renewal and flourishing

veiled design incised in porcelain or woven in fabric

Dutchman's pipe cactus, aka Queen of the Night cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)

see 花前月下[huā qián yuè xià]

lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect / well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it

magnolia

see 柴魚片|柴鱼片[chái yú piàn]

(bird species of China) scarlet-backed flowerpecker (Dicaeum cruentatum)

village of blossoming apricot trees where one can find a wineshop (reference to the famous poem 清明 by 杜牧[Dù Mù])

Ericaceae (botany), genus containing rhododendron and azalea

century egg / preserved egg

catkin (botany)