花 flower

7 strokes

(flowertop) + 化 (transform) (Same-ON)

MUTANTS:

ONYOMI: KA

You can think of the top part as the bottom of your nose, with 2 little puffs of pollen going in as you smell the flower.

the Wizard transforms your CAR into a flower. (Actually the wizard's kind of a hater.)

DESCRIPTION: -

KUNYOMI:

JUKUGO:

花見 ( はなみ ): cherry-blossom looking-at-and-getting-bombed parties (KUNKUN)
花 (flower) + 見 (look) = 花見 (sakura-viewing party)
花火 ( はなび ): fireworks (KUNKUN)
花 (flower) + 火 (fire) = 花火 (fireworks)

LOOKALIKES:

	Meaning	Hint	Radical
花	flower	POLLEN
死	death	EVENING	夕

For the sake of this mnemonic, let's call the 2 vertical strokes on the flower's top radical . . . 2 spores of pollen.

The poison flower has POLLEN that you're breathing,

and then it makes you die in the EVENING.

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