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culture / civilization / cultural / CL: 個|个, 種|种
HSK 3
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  *化* | 化* | *化
to make into / to change into / -ization / to ... -ize / to transform / abbr. for 化學|化学
HSK 3
fossil
HSK 5
to become rigid
HSK 7-9
(intransitive) to change; to vary / change; variation
HSK 3
to digest (food) / (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process
HSK 4
to dissolve / to resolve (contradictions) / to dispel (doubts) / to iron out (difficulties) / to defuse (conflicts) / to neutralize (fears)
HSK 6
Zhaohua, a district of Guangyuan City 廣元市|广元市, Sichuan
Fenghua, a district of Ningbo City 寧波市|宁波市, Zhejiang
to strengthen / to intensify
HSK 6
chemical element
silver chloride AgCl
Zhanhua, a district of Binzhou City 濱州市|滨州市, Shandong
chemical composition
carbon monoxide CO
to evolve (biologically, technologically etc); evolution
HSK 5
landscaped green strip; planted green belt
carbon dioxide CO2
HSK 7-9
Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, in Haidong City 海東市|海东市, Qinghai
to maximize
Hualong Hui Autonomous County, in Haidong City 海東市|海东市, Qinghai
to integrate; to unify
to personalize / anthropomorphism
cosmetic / makeup product
skin toner
(computing) to initialize / initialization
(biology) convergent evolution
nitric oxide
(computing) to format
zinc chloride
(of a person, population or material) to age / (of knowledge) to become outdated
HSK 7-9
to sinicize / to take on Chinese characteristics
brown oxidier / uranium dioxide
flavonoid (chemistry)
chemical fertilizer
HSK 7-9
globalization
Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology / abbr. to 四化
to deepen / to intensify
HSK 6
nitrous oxide N2O / laughing gas
generalization
to put on makeup
HSK 7-9
to make more youthful / to promote younger staff
to reach the pinnacle (of artistic skill)
to specialize
catalysis
to change; to turn; to convert / (genetics) to transform / (chemistry) isomerization
HSK 5
breeding / to incubate / innovation (esp. in commerce and marketing)
HSK 7-9
China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, Sinopec
to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster
HSK 7-9
informatization (the Information Age analog of industrialization)
the full light of day (idiom) / fig. peace and prosperity / in broad daylight
climate change
to change into / to turn into / to become
(statistics) normalized / to normalize (relations etc) / to become the norm
to mechanize
to water down / to play down / to trivialize / to weaken / to become dull with time / to desalinate / desalination
HSK 7-9
chemotherapy
to commercialize
to boil / to vaporize
to split apart / differentiation
HSK 7-9
arsine
to harden / (medicine) sclerosis / (fig.) to become inflexible in one's opinions; to ossify
chemical industry (abbr. for 化學工業|化学工业) / chemical engineering (abbr. for 化學工程|化学工程)
to internationalize / internationalization
systematization
chemical compound
specialization
to evolve / evolution
digestive tract
(biology) to carcinize
collectivization of agriculture (under communism)
to catalyze (a reaction); catalysis
(chemistry) phenol
to formalize / formalism in art (esp. as proscribed in USSR and PRC)
assimilation (cultural, digestive, phonemic etc)
corrective influence / to reform (a criminal) / redemption (of a sinner) / to influence (a malefactor to a better life) / to guide sb back to the right path by repeated word and example
to simplify
HSK 7-9
nitrogen dioxide
organic compound
to make green with plants / to reforest / (Internet slang) Islamization
HSK 6
to rot / to decay / to become corrupt
HSK 7-9
household chemicals (cleaning products etc) and toiletries (abbr. for 日用化學製品|日用化学制品) / (linguistics) to rhotacize / rhotic
incarnation / reincarnation / embodiment (of abstract idea) / personification
HSK 7-9
catalyst
to worsen
HSK 7-9
chemotherapy
to age; to mature (wine, tea, cheese etc)
global warming (Taiwan and Hong Kong usage) / written 全球變暖|全球变暖 in PRC
to optimize / (corporate euphemism) to lay off staff
HSK 7-9
(archaeology) Yangshao culture, a Neolithic culture (c. 5000–3000 BC) in the central Yellow River basin, known for painted pottery, millet farming and village settlements
to go by an alias; to assume a false name / alias; pseudonym; assumed name
to cremate
electrification; to convert to electrical power (esp. for railways, factories or other infrastructure)

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