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culture / civilization / cultural / CL: 個|个, 種|种
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *化* | 化* | *化
to make into / to change into / -ization / to ... -ize / to transform / abbr. for 化學|化学
HSK 3
to become rigid
HSK 7-9
(intransitive) to change; to vary / change; variation (CL:個|个)
HSK 3
to digest (food) / (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process
HSK 4
to strengthen / to intensify
HSK 6
evolution / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
to maximize
to integrate; to unify
to personalize / anthropomorphism
(computing) to initialize / initialization
to format
(of a person, population or material) to age / (of knowledge) to become outdated
HSK 7-9
to sinicize / to take on Chinese characteristics
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
generalization
to make more youthful / to promote younger staff
to specialize
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
informatization (the Information Age analog of industrialization)
climate change
(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
to commercialize
to boil / to vaporize
to split apart / differentiation
HSK 7-9
to harden / (medicine) sclerosis / (fig.) to become inflexible in one's opinions; to ossify
to internationalize / internationalization
systematization
specialization
to evolve / evolution
collectivization of agriculture (under communism)
catalysis / to catalyze (a reaction)
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
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
to worsen
HSK 7-9
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
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 cremate
electrification; to convert to electrical power (esp. for railways, factories or other infrastructure)
diversification / pluralism / to diversify
to purify
HSK 7-9
to personalize / to customize / customization
to politicize
imperceptible influence / to influence secretly
HSK 7-9
practice of allowing only one child per family
to make more beautiful / to decorate / embellishment
HSK 7-9
Eastern and Western culture
to nationalize / to take over as communal property
polarization
chemical change / chemical transformation
to sinicize / sinicization / (software) Chinese localization
to intensify
HSK 7-9
localization / adaptation (to foreign environment)
China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, Sinopec / abbr. for 中國石油化工股份有限公司|中国石油化工股份有限公司
collectivization (in Marxist theory)
to industrialize / industrialization
ordering (of a list, encyclopedia etc)
privatization / to privatize
vulgarization
countless changes / constant permutation
HSK 7-9
refinement / to add precision
subculture
differentiation (of a product from its competitors etc)
to socialize
(Tw) to digitize
commodification
to make divine / apotheosis
dehumanization
to melt / to thaw / to dissolve / to blend into / to combine / to fuse
HSK 7-9
decentralization
to quantify; quantification; quantitative / to quantize; quantization
to hydrate
to emulsify
to rationalize / to make compatible / to streamline / rationalization
to localize (production) / localization
to multiplex
declining birthrate (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 少子化 "shoushika")
to stigmatize
to magnetize
to standardize / standardization
diversification / to diversify
vulcanization (curing rubber using sulfur and heat)
optimization (math.)
polarization
to crack (fractionally distill oil)
to industrialize / industrialization

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