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蒸发

zhēng fā

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 蒸發

蒸发 (zhēng fā) means "to evaporate; evaporation". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 蒸发 means

1. to evaporate
2. (fig.) to vanish; to disappear

The characters in 蒸发

• 蒸zhēngto evaporate; (of cooking) to steam; torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old)
• 发fāto send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue

Example sentences

• 沸水蒸发成气体。
  Fèishuǐ zhēngfā chéng qìtǐ.
  Boiling water evaporates and turns into a gas.
• 当水被加热时，水汽蒸发。
  Dāng shuǐ bèi jiārè shí, shuǐqì zhēngfā.
  Water evaporates when it is heated.

Words starting with 蒸发

• 蒸发热zhēng fā rèlatent heat of evaporation
• 蒸发空调zhēng fā kōng tiáoevaporative air conditioner; evaporative cooler

Words containing 蒸发

• 人间蒸发rén jiān zhēng fāto vanish; to disappear from the face of the earth

Sounds the same

Read zhēng fā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 征发a punitive expedition; a requisition

Where 蒸发 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhèng–zhēng (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.
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