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退化

tuì huà

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

退化 (tuì huà) means "to degenerate; atrophy". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 退化 means

1. to degenerate
2. atrophy

The characters in 退化

• 退tuìto retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline
• 化huàto make into; to change into; -ization

Sounds the same

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

• 蜕化(of insects) to undergo metamorphosis; (fig.) to be transformed; to metamorphose

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