The Chinese Radical: 化


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Meaning
change    化

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 3
flower, blossom
huā
Top: plant 艹, bottom: change 化 (... from a standing 亻 to a sitting 匕 person)
A plant that changes (when blooming) is the: flower.
HSK 3
change, transform, to make into
huà
Left: standing person 亻, right: ladle/spoon 匕 (here: sitting person),
If a standing person becomes a sitting person, it is a change.
HSK 4
goods, commodity, products
huò
Top: change 化 (From a standing 亻 to a sitting 匕 person is a change.), bottom: money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 = shell-money)
Change money versus goods and commodities.
HSK 5
magnificent, splendid, flowery, abbr. for China
huá, huà
Top: change 化 to beautiful, as at a flower 花, bottom: ten 十
The change makes it tenfold more beautiful and magnificent, like China.
HSK 6
incline, to collapse, to overturn, to tend
qīng
Left: person 亻, right: short while ago, area size qǐng 顷 (sitting person 匕, page, (fore)head 页/頁 (=head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) Better left: change 化
If a person 亻turns to a sitting 匕 person, it's in the head, that is inclining.
HSK 6
clamor, noise, crashing sound
huā, huá
Left: mouth 口, right: magnificent, flowery 华 (The change 化 makes it tenfold 十 as magnificent)
It comes out of the mouth "magnificently", this: clamor.
no HSK
boots
xuē
Left: leather 革 (Horned 廿 animals have a skin 口 of leather.), right: change 化 (From a standing 亻 to a sitting 匕 person is a change.)
Leather changes into boots.
no HSK
error, exhort, false
é
Left: word 讠(=言 sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: change 化 (From a standing 亻 to a sitting 匕 person is a change.)
If your words are 'changed' they become erroneous.
no HSK
birch tree, Betula japonica
huà
Left: tree 木, right: magnificent, flowery 华 (The change 化 makes it tenfold 十 as magnificent)
(The bark and sap are usable:) The tree that is magnificent is the birch.

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