玫瑰 in English

Measure word

• 朵 duǒ flower; earlobe; fig. item on both sides; classifier for flowers, clouds etc attested
• 棵 kē classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc attested

Character breakdown

• 玫 méi (fine jade)
• 瑰瓌 guī (semiprecious stone)

How it used to be written

玫

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 5 forms

瑰

• Small seal script
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 3 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 在情人节，我用玫瑰花瓣拼出了我的另一半的名字。

  For Valentine's day, I used rose petals to spell out my sweetheart's name.

• 在花園裡的玫瑰正盛開著。

  The roses in the garden are in flower.

• 她手里拿着一朵玫瑰。

  She has a rose in her hand.

• 她用玫瑰花装饰了她的房间。

  She decorated her room with roses.

• 我喜欢花，比如说，玫瑰。

  I like flowers, for example, roses.

• 我喜歡紅色的玫瑰。

  I like red roses.

• 我花园里的一部分玫瑰是白色的，其他的是红色的。

  Some of the roses in my garden are white, and the others are red.

• 没有玫瑰花是不长刺的。

  There are no roses without thorns.

All example sentences with 玫瑰