Lai Fa - beautiful flower? My girlfriend is adopted into a Chinese family and they gave her the middle name "Lai Fa". Her mother is Cantonese and says it means beautiful flower.

But when we google the words online nothing comes up. Is there an origin of this term?
麗  http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/1152/
  
  lai6   (jyutping)
  
  (1) [adj] beautiful; magnificent; elegant 


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  花 http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/32/ 
  
  faa1   (jyutping)
  
  (1) [n] flower; blossom 


Your girlfriend's middle name is 麗花 (lai6 faa1 in Cantonese jyutping)

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