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进化

jìn huà

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

进化 (jìn huà) means "evolution". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 进化 means

1. to evolve (biologically, technologically etc); evolution

The characters in 进化

• 进jìnto go forward; to advance; to go in
• 化huàto make into; to change into; -ization

Example sentences

• 软件正在不断进化。
  Ruǎnjiàn zhèngzài bùduàn jìnhuà.
  Software is constantly evolving.
• 他们反对达尔文的进化论。
  Tāmen fǎnduì Dá'ěrwén de jìnhuàlùn.
  They opposed Darwin's theory of evolution.
• 一提到进化论，我们就会想起达尔文。
  Yī tídào jìnhuàlùn, wǒmen jiù huì xiǎngqǐ Dá'ěrwén.
  We associate Darwin with the theory of evolution.
• 男人不能变成女人，就像猴子不能进化成人类一样。
  A man can no more become a woman than a monkey can develop into a man.
• 我们一出生在这个世界上，就会开始受到周遭环境的影响，从生物单位慢慢进化成社会单位。
  Wǒmen yī chūshēng zài zhège shìjiè shàng, jiù huì kāishǐ shòudào zhōuzāo huánjìng de yǐngxiǎng, cóng shēngwù dānwèi mànmàn jìnhuà chéng shèhuì dānwèi.
  As soon as we are born, the world gets to work on us and transforms us from merely biological into social units.

Words starting with 进化

• 进化论jìn huà lùntheory of evolution; (esp.) Darwinism

Words containing 进化

• 激进化jī jìn huàradicalization; to radicalize
• 趋同进化qū tóng jìn huà(biology) convergent evolution

Where 进化 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jìn (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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