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Kanji Detail for 蓮 - "lotus, water lily"

蓮

  • Meaning

    蓮 means "lotus, water lily."

    1. Lotus - A sacred aquatic flower.

    2. Pure - Symbol of enlightenment.

    3. Buddhist - Associated with Buddhism.

  • Four-character idioms with 蓮

    • 一蓮托生 いちれんたくしょう Listen sharing one's lot with another; being in the same boat

  • Origin of 蓮

    The grass crown 艹 over 連, "to link", which lends the reading ren: the lotus, whose roots run joined beneath the water — flowers above, connection below.

    How to remember it: Blossoms floating apart, roots linked 連 below the surface — the lotus.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: lotus, water lily
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read はす, はちす, れん)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 蓮

    Given names 蓮(はす)Listen 蓮(れん)Listen

    Surnames 蓮(はちす)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    lotus

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    lotus, water lily; paradise

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    lotus

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    lotus, water lily; paradise

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A flower name. It is lotus. Anciently referred specifically to its fruit. Later commonly used interchangeably. Such as lotus flower being called 蓮花. Lotus leaf being called 蓮葉. In the past, women's bound feet were called 金蓮 (golden lotus). Based on the expression in "History of the Southern Dynasties" about Emperor Donghunji's concubine Lady Pan having "lotuses blooming with each step."

  • Onyomi

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    ren(レン) レン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    hachisu(はちす) はちす

    hasu(はす) はす

  • Strokes

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    13 strokes

  • Radical

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    艸 艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)

  • Related Keywords

    lotus water lily flower aquatic pond sacred buddhism purity enlightenment bloom beauty serenity

Sentences including 蓮

  • The lotus blossoms diffused an inexpressibly pleasant scent.

  • The temples on Mars are decorated with lotus flowers.

  • The lotus is an aquatic plant with very large leaves and flowers.

  • By the way, Ren. Should I take your hand? Every year you wander off.

  • By the way, Ren. Should I take your hand? Every year you wander off.

  • A normal person might spend a lifetime at it and still not succeed but faced with a determined Ren it was not greatly different from a normal cylinder lock.

  • The naming trends for babies born this February 2020 have been announced. The number one girl's name was "Rin", and the number one boy's name was "Ren".

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