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化 (huà): meaning and stroke order

化 (huà) means to make into, to change into, -ization, to ... -ize, to transform, abbr. for 化学.

化

Simplified
化
Traditional
化 (same form)
Pinyin
huà · huā

Stroke order of 化

化

  • huā variant of 花[hua1]
  • huà to make into; to change into
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 化

  1. huà
    • to make into
    • to change into
    • -ization
    • to ... -ize
    • to transform
    • abbr. for 化學|化学[hua4 xue2]
  2. huā
    • variant of 花[hua1]

Radical and structure

化
Radical 匕 (Kangxi radical 21) · 4 strokes · 亻 on the left, 𠤎 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 化

化 in our stories

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  • 艄公说：“每年这个时候，黄河上下的鲤鱼都游到这里来。传说跳过龙门的鱼，天上会降下一团火，烧掉它的尾巴，它才能化为龙。”

    shāogōng shuō měi nián zhège shíhou Huáng Hé shàngxià de lǐyú dōu yóu dào zhèli lái chuánshuō tiào guò Lóngmén de yú tiānshàng huì jiàng xià yì tuán huǒ shāo diào tā de wěiba tā cái néng huà wéi lóng

    The boatman said, "Every year at this time the carp from all along the Yellow River swim here. The legend says that when a fish leaps the gate, a ball of fire comes down from the sky and burns off its tail, and only then can it turn into a dragon."

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 化

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).