Sumire Hiiragizawa

Sumire Hiiragizawa (柊沢 スミレ, Hiiragizawa Sumire) is a major supporting character in CLAMP's manga series Cardcaptor Meihua, and their anime adaptations. She is the best friend of the series' protagonist, Meihua Li, and her third cousin on their mothers' side.

The daughter of the president of Daidouji Clothing Company, Tomoyo Hiiragizawa and Clow Reed reincarnate, Eriol Hiiragizawa, Sumire lives a life of wealth and is watched over by a team of female bodyguards. She has access to a variety of prototype technological gadgets from her grandmother's company and mother's clothing lines, and supplies Meihua and Cerberus with different communication devices throughout the series. She is depicted as being mature, kindhearted, intelligent, and regularly speaking using more formal verb conjugations and expressions than normally seen in elementary students. She is a talented singer, and is shown performing in various school events.

Etymology

 * Her name, "Sumire", is the Japanese name for violets, the flower.
 * Sumire's surname Hiiragizawa means "holly" (柊) (Hiiragi), and "swamp, marsh, brilliance, grace." (沢) (sawa).

Appearance
Sumire is an elegant and delicate-looking porcelain-white skinned young girl with waist-length dark blue hair with a fringe hanging above her right eye and short sidelocks. She often has her hair pinned up at the back with a magenta bow and side braids. It was later revealed that Tomoyo Hiiragizawa (Sumire's mother) had made her style her hair like that so she would look like Sakura Kinomoto. She has her mother's purple eyes, making her, Meihua, and Karma the only three people to have an eye color other than brown or grey from her other classmates.

Sumire's outfits change frequently like Meihua's throughout the series. Her most iconic everyday outfit is her school uniform, as well as her battle outfit, which changes depending on the season. All year round, black Mary Jane shoes are worn along with white socks and a white sailor hat with a black trim.

Personality
Sumire is very mature for her age. One of her major character traits is her selflessness towards Meihua. Sumire is cute, kind, caring, sweet, highly intelligent, beautiful, meticulous, annoyingly perfectionist and very melodic like her mother (she has a lovely singing voice and often has solos in choir recitals). She enjoys filming Meihua all the time. She also sings in a club at school. Sumire can be slightly over the top at times (only where Meihua or Karma is concerned), but otherwise she is practically perfect in every way. She always speaks using formal verb conjugations and expressions, giving her a unique air of refinement amongst the cast. Like her father she also has a mischievous and cunning personality, and often restrains herself from making wisecracks.