How to say "blooming" in Japanese

• 開花かいかCommon
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbThe default choice for the literal sense: flowers opening and coming into bloom. As the common word for flowering, it is what you want for trees, gardens, and the blossom season generally.
  ２、３日かすれば開花かいかするでしょう。↗

  The blossoms will be out in a few days.
• ブルーミング
  nounA katakana borrowing that transcribes the English word, so it appears mainly where the English term itself would be used; for flowers coming into bloom it is seldom what you want.
• 妙齢みょうれい
  no-adjectiveNot about flowers at all: this describes a person, usually a young woman, who is in the prime of youth — the figurative 'blooming' of someone at a marriageable age.
• 花付きはなつき
  nounTreats blooming as a state or quality of an individual plant — how it is flowering — rather than the event of flowers opening; seldom the right word for saying that blossoms are out.

Use 開花 for flowers coming into bloom; 「花付き」 for a plant's flowering as a quality; 妙齢 for a person, usually a woman, in the prime of youth; 「ブルーミング」 is a rarely needed borrowing of the English word.

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• 開花かいかflowering
• ブルーミングblooming
• 妙齢みょうれいyoung (usu. of a woman)
• 花付きはなつきflowering
• 花はなblooming (esp. of cherry blossoms)