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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *化* | 化* | *化
to make into / to change into / -ization / to ... -ize / to transform / abbr. for 化學|化学
HSK 3
culture / civilization / cultural / CL: 個|个, 種|种
HSK 3
(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 change; to turn; to convert / (genetics) to transform / (chemistry) isomerization
HSK 5
evolution / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
to deepen / to intensify
HSK 6
to strengthen / to intensify
HSK 6
to make green with plants / to reforest / (Internet slang) Islamization
HSK 6
to simplify
HSK 7-9
to optimize
HSK 7-9
(of a person, population or material) to age / (of knowledge) to become outdated
HSK 7-9
to worsen
HSK 7-9
to melt / to thaw / to dissolve / to blend into / to combine / to fuse
HSK 7-9
to water down / to play down / to trivialize / to weaken / to become dull with time / to desalinate / desalination
HSK 7-9
countless changes / constant permutation
HSK 7-9
to make more beautiful / to decorate / embellishment
HSK 7-9
imperceptible influence / to influence secretly
HSK 7-9
to purify
HSK 7-9
breeding / to incubate / innovation (esp. in commerce and marketing)
HSK 7-9
to become rigid
HSK 7-9
to rot / to decay / to become corrupt
HSK 7-9
to split apart / differentiation
HSK 7-9
to intensify
HSK 7-9
globalization
to mechanize
to internationalize / internationalization
to integrate; to unify
(Tw) to digitize
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
assimilation (cultural, digestive, phonemic etc)
to give a more granular level of detail / to elaborate / to refine / to become more differentiated
Dehua county in Quanzhou 泉州, Fujian
to localize / localization
to sinicize / sinicization / (software) Chinese localization
to idealize
to automate
biodiversity
office automation
to become civilized / to be open-minded / (of ice) to thaw
to melt / to dissolve (of sugar etc)
hydrogenation
aging (population)
quantization (physics)
modernization / CL: 個|个
mass-oriented / to cater for the masses / popularized
to oxidize
cirrhosis
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *化* | 化* | *化
variant of
diversification / pluralism / to diversify
diversification / to diversify
(of insects) to undergo metamorphosis / (fig.) to be transformed / to metamorphose / to become degraded
to enslave; to subjugate
Zhanghua or Changhua city and county in west Taiwan
activation
to carbonize / dry distillation / carbonization
hardening of the arteries / arteriosclerosis
visualization
Zunhua, county-level city in Tangshan 唐山, Hebei
to cremate
to evolve / evolution
to minimize
Longshan culture / black pottery culture
to quantify; quantification; quantitative / to quantize; quantization
(literary) Nature; the Creator
good luck
normalization (of diplomatic relations etc)
to format
to calcify / calcification
subculture
specialization
to petrify / petrochemical industry
to harden / (medicine) sclerosis / (fig.) to become inflexible in one's opinions; to ossify
biochemistry
to standardize / standardization
to soften
to digitize
to turn white-hot / to intensify / to reach a climax
weaken / make weaker
to industrialize / industrialization
liberalization / freeing (from sth)
to concretize
decency / public morals / to weather (rocks) / wind erosion
Chenghua, reign title of the eighth Ming emperor (reigned 1465-1487)
polarization
to vaporize / evaporation / carburetion / 氣|气 transformation in TCM (i.e. transformation of yin yang vital breath) / unvoicing of voiced consonant
to convert to democracy; democratic transformation
polarization
to socialize
Dunhua, county-level city in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture 延邊朝鮮族自治州|延边朝鲜族自治州, Jilin
to tame / to domesticate
magic transformation performed by Daoist immortal / fig. to reveal / to enlighten
standardization
to feminize / feminization
localization / adaptation (to foreign environment)
to urbanize
mathematics, physics and chemistry (abbr. for 數學|数学 + 物理 + 化學|化学)

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