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化作

huà zuò

2-character word

What 化作 means

1. to change into
2. to turn into
3. to become

The characters in 化作

• 化huàto make into; to change into; -ization
• 作zuòto do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign

Example sentences

• 山谷中，薄雾如白色羽毛般缓缓升腾，化作一团白云，遮蔽了一切。
  Down in the valley a mist like a white feather rose gently into a white cloud, and obscured everything.

Words containing 化作

• 同化作用tóng huà zuò yòngassimilation; anabolism (biology); constructive metabolism…
• 风化作用fēng huà zuò yòngweathering (of rocks); erosion (by wind etc)
• 光化作用guāng huà zuò yòngphotochemical effect; photosynthesis; photolysis
• 异化作用yì huà zuò yòngcatabolism (biology); metabolic breaking down and waste disposal; dissimilation
• 趋化作用qū huà zuò yòngchemotaxis (movement of leukocytes under chemical stimulus)
• 催化作用cuī huà zuò yòngcatalysis
• 烃化作用tīng huà zuò yòngalkylation

Sounds the same

Read huà zuò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 画作painting; picture