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Gender Feminine
Usage Japanese
Scripts 木蓮, 木蘭(Japanese Kanji) もくれん(Japanese Hiragana) モクレン(Japanese Katakana)
Other Forms FormsMulian, Mulan (Chinese), Mog-lyeon (Korean)
Meaning & History
The Japanese word for Magnolia liliiflora, also known as the lily magnolia or Mulan magnolia. It is the Japanese reading of Mulan. It comes from Japanese 木 (ki, moku) meaning "tree, wood" combined with 蓮 (hasu, ren) meaning "lotus, waterlily" or 蘭 (ran, ren) meaning "orchid". Other combinations of kanji can form this name as well.