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化身

huà shēn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

化身 (huà shēn) means "incarnation; reincarnation; embodiment (of abstract idea)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 化身 means

1. incarnation
2. reincarnation
3. embodiment (of abstract idea)
4. personification

The characters in 化身

• 化huàto make into; to change into; -ization
• 身shēnbody; life; oneself

Example sentences

• 你是恶魔的化身。
  Nǐ shì èmó de huàshēn.
  You are the devil incarnate.
• 她是礼貌的化身。
  Tā shì lǐmào de huàshēn.
  She is politeness itself.
• 他们观察到她随着病情变化身体也渐渐衰弱下去。
  Tāmen guānchá dào tā suí zhe bìngqíng biànhuà shēntǐ yě jiànjiàn shuāiruò xiàqù.
  They watched her gradually weaken as the disease progressed.
• 庄子曾梦见自己化身为蝶，当他醒来，他分不清是自己刚刚梦见自己变成蝴蝶呢，还是蝴蝶正梦见它变成了庄子。
  Once, Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly, but when he woke up, he wasn't sure whether he was Zhuangzi who had dreamed being a butterfly or if he was a butterfly now dreaming he was Zhuangzi.

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