蓼花

Chinese

		luxuriant growth; polygonum; smartweed	flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
trad. (蓼花)		蓼	花
simp. #(蓼花)		蓼	花
anagram		花蓼

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liǎohuā

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lio̍k-hoa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liǎohuā
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liǎohua
    • Wade–Giles: liao³-hua¹
    • Yale: lyǎu-hwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leauhua
    • Palladius: ляохуа (ljaoxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lio̍k-hoa
    • Tâi-lô: lio̍k-hua
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lioghoaf
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /liɔk̚⁴⁻³² hua⁴⁴/

Noun

蓼花

1. (botany) knotweed flower; smartweed flower (the (usually pink) flower of various plants in the family Polygonaceae, especially in the genera Polygonum and Persicaria)

Pronunciation 2

		luxuriant growth; polygonum; smartweed	flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
trad. (蓼花)		蓼	花
simp. #(蓼花)		蓼	花
alternative forms		荖花 Hokkien
anagram		花蓼

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liǎohuā

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): láu-hoe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liǎohuā
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liǎohua
    • Wade–Giles: liao³-hua¹
    • Yale: lyǎu-hwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leauhua
    • Palladius: ляохуа (ljaoxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: láu-hoe
    • Tâi-lô: láu-hue
    • Phofsit Daibuun: law'hoef
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hue⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hue³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hue⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hue⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hue⁴⁴/

Noun

蓼花

1. (Hokkien, Taiwanese Mandarin) sugarcoated hollow puffed rice confection

See also

• 米粩
• 麻粩 / 麻米粩仔

Further reading

• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “láu-hoe”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, With the Principal Variations of the Chang-chew and Chin-chew Dialects. (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 296; New Edition, With Corrections by the Author., Thomas Barclay, Lîm Iàn-sîn 林燕臣, London: Publishing Office of the Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 296
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “蓼花”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC