化 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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

rén

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

匕 Iconic component

bǐ

spoon

Used here to depict an upside-down person.

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

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[huàxué]

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)

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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

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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