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化

huà, huā

change

Pictograph of a right-side up person and an upside-down person, depicting the meaning "turn around" or "transform".

Components
亻 iconic component

亻  Iconic component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

匕 iconic component

匕  Iconic component

bǐ

  

spoon

Used here to depict an upside-down person.

Evolution

化 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
化 Bronze script Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
化 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
化 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
化 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

化  

huà

change, convert, reform; -ize; to make into; to change into; -ization; to ... -ize; to transform; abbr. for 化學|化学[huà​xué]

化  

huā

variant of 花[huā]

Most common words with 化
Freq.
Word
Meaning

文化

culture

变化

change

化

to make into

化学

chemistry

化妆

to put on makeup

Component uses

Sound component in 7 characters (4 verified)

花 华 貨 货 靴 訛 讹

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。”


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