Pollen – 花粉 – huā fěn

Loving this weather, we hit 80 today here in the Northeast.  Everything is waking up, including the all the pollen in the air.  My two poor kids have been on medications on 2 weeks now.  Little Dumpling got his first asthma attack of this season, felt so bad for him.

Chinese words are always so funny.  Some can be so poetic and descriptive, yet some can just be so straight forward.  Pollen, for example, is pretty straight forward.  The word 花 means flower, and 粉 means powder.  Yup, that’s it, Flower Powder!  Where as you have words like 花都, Huā dū, literal translation is Flower city.  It actually describes a city full of beautiful things, just like flowers.  How pretty is that!!!