曇花一現

昙
曇
花
花
一
一
现
現
lit. the night-blooming cactus shows once / flash in the pan (idiom) / short-lived

Characters and words in 曇花一現

昙
曇
tán = t + an2
dark clouds
Add a new mnemonic for 昙 = 日 + 云
Add a new mnemonic for 曇 = 日 + 雲
昙
曇
花
花
Dutchman's pipe cactus, aka Queen of the Night cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)
花
hua̅ = hu + a1
surname Hua
Add a new mnemonic for 花 = 艹 + 化
花 = 艹 + 化 : Helga Horse found an interesting way of converting artificial lawn into a flower with the help of a transformer. In front of the ashram, she feeds the artificial lawn to the input of the transformer, and watches a flower grow at the output.
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花
hua̅ = hu + a1
flower / blossom / CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4] / fancy pattern / florid / to spend (money, time) / (coll.) lecherous / lustful
Add a new mnemonic for 花 = 艹 + 化
花 = 艹 + 化 : Helga Horse found an interesting way of converting artificial lawn into a flower with the help of a transformer. In front of the ashram, she feeds the artificial lawn to the input of the transformer, and watches a flower grow at the output.
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花
芲
hua̅ = hu + a1
old variant of 花[hua1]
Add a new mnemonic for 花 = 艹 + 化
Add a new mnemonic for 芲 = 艹 + 仑
花 = 艹 + 化 : Helga Horse found an interesting way of converting artificial lawn into a flower with the help of a transformer. In front of the ashram, she feeds the artificial lawn to the input of the transformer, and watches a flower grow at the output.
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花
蘤
hua̅ = hu + a1
variant of 花[hua1] / flower / blossom / also pr. [wei3]
Add a new mnemonic for 花 = 艹 + 化
花 = 艹 + 化 : Helga Horse found an interesting way of converting artificial lawn into a flower with the help of a transformer. In front of the ashram, she feeds the artificial lawn to the input of the transformer, and watches a flower grow at the output.
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一
yi̅ = y + Ø1
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
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Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
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现
現
xiàn = xi + an4
to appear / present / now / existing / current
Add a new mnemonic for 现 = 王 + 见
Add a new mnemonic for 現 = 王 + 見
现 = 王 + 见 : Martin Luther King has a project in which he wants to document the current state of the nation. He has a surveillance camera put up in the anthill's bathroom and interviews Marie Curie about her views about the present time.
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