HSK 6 · Nature

花蕾 huālěi “flower bud” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 花蕾 means

  1. flower bud
  2. bud

How to say 花蕾

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale花huā1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale蕾lěi3rd tone, dipping

花蕾 in a sentence

  1. 玫瑰花蕾。

    Méigui huālěi.

    A rosebud.

    Sentence #13111523 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 花蕾 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 花 (huā) with each of its parts in a different colour
花huāflower
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎo
  • 化to change · huà

Memory aidA plant 艹 with 化 (huà) for the sound: a flower.

The character 蕾 (lěi) with each of its parts in a different colour
蕾lěibud
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
  • 雷thunder · léiSound part

艹 hints at the meaning (grass); 雷 (léi) hints at the sound. Compare it with lěi.

How to write 花蕾

花 7 strokes · 蕾 16 strokes

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花蕾 (huālěi) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 花蕾 (huālěi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 花蕾

Words with 花

花huā · flower花园huāyuán · garden开花kāihuā · to bloom花生huāshēng · peanut花瓣huābàn · petal棉花miánhua · cotton烟花爆竹yānhuābàozhú · fireworks and firecrackers锦上添花jǐnshàngtiānhuā · to make something even better

More words: Nature & Environment

光芒guāngmáng · rays of light洪水hóngshuǐ · flood花瓣huābàn · petal化肥huàféi · chemical fertiliser化石huàshí · fossil回收huíshōu · to recycle火焰huǒyàn · flame湖泊húpō · lake

FAQs

花蕾 (huālěi) means “flower bud” or “bud”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it huālěi: huā with a 1st tone, then lěi with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 花蕾 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hualei with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 花蕾 from the suggestions. Typing hualei into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
花蕾 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.