■ radical
huá
flowery
How it’s built
Pictograph of a flower. Originally used to mean "flower", now written as 花. The meaning later shifted to "blossoming", "flourishing" and "magnificent". The 艹 (grass) component was added in Seal script.
艹
meaning
grass — 艹 is a component form of 艸.
◎
iconic
characterless component — Pictograph of a flower.
Through the ages
Appears in
Characters that use 華 as a component, most common first.