huà, huā
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Pictograph of a right-side up person (亻) and an upside-down person (𠤎), depicting the meaning "turn around" or "transform".
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʷʰˤ<r>aj-s | xwaeH | huà | transform |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 65.4653% of movies
592nd most common character in movies
178th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+5316 |
Shuowen | “化,教行也。从,从人,亦聲。” |
Sources
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