Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hanahaki

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hana-ha-ki
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fictional illness in which a person bearing an unrequited love coughs up flower petals until they die or their feelings are reciprocated. The disease can also be cured by a surgical procedure that removes the flowers, but this will result in them losing their feelings of affection and all memories of the person they loved.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The cascading emotions are giving me hanahaki tonight, they're beautiful but it's suffocating."
"It is familiar. In that most everyone is familiar with a coffee shop and thus understands the AU’s basic premise on sight. Unlike, say, Hanahaki fics."
"However, to a hanahaki patient, it's probably far more terrifying for them to have the surgery to cure their feelings than the disease."

Etymology

From Japanese 花吐き病 (hanahaki-byō), from 花 (hana, “flower”) + 吐く (haku, “to vomit”). An invention of Matsuda Naoko (松田奈緒子) for her manga Hanahaki Otome (『花吐き乙女』).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: 花吐き病

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does hanahaki mean?: A fictional illness in which a person bearing an unrequited love coughs up flower petals until they die or their feelings are reciprocated. The disease can also be cured by a surgical procedure that removes the flowers, but this will result in them losing their feelings of affection and all memories of the person they loved.
Where does hanahaki come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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