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简化

jiǎn huà

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 簡化

简化 (jiǎn huà) means "to simplify". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 简化 means

1. to simplify

The characters in 简化

• 简jiǎnsimple; uncomplicated; letter
• 化huàto make into; to change into; -ization

Example sentences

• 简化。
  Simplify.
• 中国的汉字数量繁多，推行汉字简化的目的，是把结构复杂的繁体字转换成易学易记的简体字，从而提高国民的识字水平。
  Zhōngguó de hànzì shùliàng fánduō, tuīxíng hànzì jiǎnhuà de mùdì, shì bǎ jiégòu fùzá de fántǐzì zhuǎnhuàn chéng yìxué yì jì de jiǎntǐzì, cóng'ér tígāo guómín de shízì shuǐpíng.
  In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.

Words starting with 简化

• 简化字jiǎn huà zìsimplified Chinese character

Words containing 简化

• 第二次汉字简化方案Dì èr Cì Hàn zì Jiǎn huà Fāng ànSecond Chinese Character Simplification Scheme…

Sounds the same

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

• 碱化to make basic or alkaline; alkalization (chemistry)

Where 简化 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiàn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiǎn huà correctly.
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