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What is the difference between "花が開きます" and "花が咲きます". I think it's all about
flowers blooming
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What is the difference between "花が開きます" and "花が咲きます"
According to
[weblio](https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E8%8A%B1%E9%96%8B%E3%81%8F), they are
synonymous with one exception:

花開く (as one unit, not 花が開く) can be used to talk about things other than
flowers blooming metaphorically. The example given is "才能が花開く".
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Like some other languages such as English, 咲く is the default, specialized verb
to describe the phenomenon of flowers opening, or to "bloom", and 開く is not.

At least in the modern language, using 開く for flowers suggests that your focus
is not that you simply enjoy a blooming flower, but you have some special
interest in the mechanical process of a flower opening because, say, you are a
florist that has to control the timing of displaying flower in the store, or a
botanist that has to manipulate experiment conditions etc.

Although there is a bookish expression 花開く, it is mostly for "flourish" as a
figure of speech. For real flowers we stick to 咲く e.g. 花咲く丘 "a flowering
hill".
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