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Trad. 細化
- to give a more granular level of detail
- to elaborate
- to refine
- to become more differentiated
Trad. 綠化
- to make green with plants
- to reforest
- (Internet slang) Islamization
Trad. 變化
- (intransitive) to change; to vary
- change; variation (CL:個|个[ge4])
Trad. 霧化
- to make into a fine spray; to atomize
- (medicine) nebulizer treatment
- to blacken
- (slang) to undergo a transformation to a malevolent personality (often, precipitated by intense psychological stress)
- to harden
- (medicine) sclerosis
- (fig.) to become inflexible in one's opinions; to ossify
Trad. 兒化
- (Chinese phonetics) to rhotacize a syllable final; to apply r-coloring to the final of a syllable
- to water down
- to play down
- to trivialize
- to weaken
- to become dull with time
- to desalinate
- desalination
- to go by an alias; to assume a false name
- alias; pseudonym; assumed name
- levitation (of Daoist immortal)
- to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven
- (in Daoism) to become immortal
- to die
- of winged insects, to emerge from the cocoon in adult form
- eclosion
Trad. 勸化
- to exhort (sb) to live a virtuous life (Buddhism)
- to beg for alms
Trad. 點化
- magic transformation performed by Daoist immortal
- fig. to reveal
- to enlighten
- chemical industry (abbr. for 化學工業|化学工业[hua4 xue2 gong1 ye4])
- chemical engineering (abbr. for 化學工程|化学工程[hua4 xue2 gong1 cheng2])
- household chemicals (cleaning products etc) and toiletries (abbr. for 日用化學製品|日用化学制品[ri4 yong4 hua4 xue2 zhi4 pin3])
- (linguistics) to rhotacize
- rhotic
Trad. 化約
- to simplistically reduce (sth) to just ...; to regard (sth) as merely ...
- (of a person, population or material) to age
- (of knowledge) to become outdated
- to dissolve
- to resolve (contradictions)
- to dispel (doubts)
- to iron out (difficulties)
- to defuse (conflicts)
- to neutralize (fears)
Trad. 化開
- to spread out after being diluted or melted
- to dissolve into a liquid
Trad. 歸化
- old name for district of Hohhot city 呼和浩特[Hu1 he2 hao4 te4], Inner Mongolia
Trad. 順化
- Hue, city in central Vietnam and capital of Thua Thien province
Trad. 轉化
- to change; to turn; to convert
- (genetics) to transform
- (chemistry) isomerization
- abbr. for 四個現代化|四个现代化[si4 ge4 xian4 dai4 hua4], Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations
Trad. 氣化
- to vaporize
- evaporation
- carburetion
- 氣|气[qi4] transformation in TCM (i.e. transformation of yin yang vital breath)
- unvoicing of voiced consonant
- 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 digest (food)
- (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process
Trad. 蛻化
- (of insects) to undergo metamorphosis
- (fig.) to be transformed
- to metamorphose
- to become degraded
- (plant pathology) to become stunted
- (horticulture) to dwarf; to reduce in size (by pruning, breeding etc)
- (fig.) to diminish the status of; to disparage
- (fig.) to downplay
Trad. 興化市
- Xinghua, a county-level city in Taizhou City 泰州市[Tai4 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu
Trad. 開化縣
- Kaihua county in Quzhou 衢州[Qu2 zhou1], Zhejiang
- declining birthrate (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 少子化 "shoushika")
Trad. 低齡化
- (of a certain group of people, e.g. recreational drug users) to become younger, on average, than before
- 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
Trad. 差異化
- differentiation (of a product from its competitors etc)
Trad. 變化球
- (baseball) breaking ball
- (fig.) curveball; unexpected turn of events
Trad. 變化音
- (music) accidental (a note foreign to the key signature)
Trad. 常態化
- (statistics) normalized
- to normalize (relations etc)
- to become the norm
Trad. 鹵化銀
- silver halide (usually chloride) used to fix photos