化 huà

  1. huà verb to make into; to change into; to transform
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Change
    Notes: In this sense 化 is similar in meaning to 变化 (CC-CEDICT '化'; Guoyu '化' v 1; Kroll 2015 '化' 1, p. 168; Unihan '化'; XHZD '化' 1, p. 287)
  2. huà suffix -ization
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: A nominal suffix indicating change, for example, in 老化 'aging' 腐化 'corruption' and 现代化 'modernization' (CC-CEDICT '化'; Guoyu '化' v 8; Sun 2006, loc. 714; Unihan '化'; XHZD '化' 5, p. 287)
  3. huà verb to convert; to persuade
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 教化 (Guoyu '化' n 1; Kroll 2015 '化' 2, p. 168)
  4. huà verb to manifest
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '化' 3, p. 168)
  5. huà verb to collect alms
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 化 is similar in meaning to 募化 (Guoyu '化' v 7; XHZD '化' 4, p. 287)
  6. huà verb [of Nature] to create
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 造化 (Guoyu '化' v 2; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 523)
  7. huà verb to die
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In this sense 化 is similar in meaning to 死 (Guoyu '化' v 4; Kroll 2015 '化' 4, p. 168)
  8. huà verb to dissolve; to melt
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: As in 溶化 (Guoyu '化' v 5)
  9. huà verb to revert to a previous custom
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '化' v 3)
  10. huà noun chemistry
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Chemistry
    Notes: In this sense 化 is similar in meaning to 化学 (Guoyu '化' n 2; XHZD '化' 3, p. 287)
  11. huà verb to burn
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: As in 火化 (Guoyu '化' v 6)
  12. huā verb to spend
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: As a variant of 花 (XHZD '化' huā, p. 285)

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宣化 、 兴化 、 南化 、 化隆回族自治县 、 数字化 、 顺化市 、 宣化县 、 词形变化

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