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hanami

noun

hanami is spelled H-A-N-A-M-I: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hanami means “The Japanese custom of enjoying the beauty of flowers, usually cherry blossoms or plum blossoms, also known as "flower viewing"” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in hanami?

Letters6: H-A-N-A-M-I
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 125,655th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is hanami?

Hanami appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What does hanami mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The Japanese custom of enjoying the beauty of flowers, usually cherry blossoms or plum blossoms, also known as "flower viewing".

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Hanami in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Japanese custom:

LanguageWords
Frenchhanami
GermanHanami

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does hanami come from?

From Japanese 花見 (hanami).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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