HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Nature, Animals

开花 kāihuā “to bloom” in Chinese

Traditional 開花

What 开花 means

  1. to bloom
  2. to flower
  3. to blossom
  4. (fig.) to burst
  5. to split open
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (fig.) to burst with joy
  • (fig.) to spring up everywhere
  • to flourish

How to say 开花

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale开kāi1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale花huā1st tone, high and level

开花 in a sentence

  1. 过两三天就要开花了。

    Guò liǎng sān tiān jiùyào kāihuā le.

    They’ll bloom in two or three days.

    Sentence #804893 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这些花比别的花早开花。

    Zhèxiē huā bǐ biéde huā zǎo kāihuā.

    These flowers bloom earlier than others do.

    Sentence #796935 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 绣球在六月开花。

    Xiùqiú zài liùyuè kāihuā.

    Hydrangeas bloom in June.

    Sentence #342711 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 开花 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 开 (kāi) with each of its parts in a different colour
开kāito open
  • 一one · yī
  • 廾two hands · gǒng

Memory aidSimplified from 開: two hands lifting the bar of a gate 門: to open.

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.

How to write 开花

开 4 strokes · 花 7 strokes

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

Words related to 开花

Words with 开

开kāi · to open开车kāichē · to drive a car开始kāishǐ · to begin开学kāixué · to start a new school term打开dǎkāi · to open离开líkāi · leave开会kāihuì · to have a meeting分开fēnkāi · to separate开机kāijī · to switch on (a device)开心kāixīn · to feel happy

Words with 花

花huā · flower花园huāyuán · garden花生huāshēng · peanut花瓣huābàn · petal花蕾huālěi · flower bud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, Animals & Weather

冰bīng · ice河hé · river羊yáng · sheep草地cǎodì · lawn大熊猫dàxióngmāo · giant panda地球dìqiú · the earth海洋hǎiyáng · ocean火huǒ · fire

FAQs

开花 (kāihuā) means “to bloom” or “to flower”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it kāihuā: kāi with a 1st tone, then huā with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 开花 is written 開花. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kaihua with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 开花 from the suggestions. Typing kaihua into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
开花 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older 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.