Start with the flower, because everything else in this entry is attached to it. A pansy is low, wide and soft: five rounded , strong colour, a dark mark in the middle that reads like a small face with its head tipped down. It is planted in pots and window boxes, and it flowers in cold months when little else does. Hold that picture of something delicate and pretty and close to the ground, because English later took the same word and threw it at men it wanted to call soft — which tells you about the speakers, not about the plant.
From the word’s history
Recorded as coming from Middle French pensee, 'thought', because the flower hangs its head like someone deep in thought; it is a doublet of pensee in English.
依據來源，這個字來自中古法文 pensée（想法）：因為這種花低著頭，像一個人在沉思。英文裡 pensée 也被借了進來，跟 pansy 是同一條來源。這正好解釋了核心畫面裡「低頭的小臉」。
Wiktionary, "pansy"
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