文化

Character by character

• 文wén4 strokesHSK 1literature, culture, writing
• 化huà4 strokesHSK 3change, convert, reform; -ize

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 文化. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 变化biàn huàHSK 3

  (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation

• 文件wén jiànHSK 3

  document; file

• 文wénHSK 7

  language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67

• 文章wén zhāngHSK 3

  article; essay; literary works; writings; hidden meaning

• 化huàHSK 3

  to make into; to change into; -ization; to ... -ize; to transform; abbr. for 化学

• 文明wén míngHSK 3

  civilized; civilization; culture

• 化学huà xué

  chemistry; chemical

• 文字wén zìHSK 3

  character; script; writing; written language; writing style; phraseology

• 论文lùn wénHSK 4

  paper; treatise; thesis; to discuss a paper or thesis (old)

• 文学wén xuéHSK 3

  literature

• 化妆huà zhuāngHSK 7

  to put on makeup

• 消化xiāo huàHSK 4

  to digest (food); (fig.) to absorb (information etc); to assimilate; to process

• 恶化è huàHSK 7

  to worsen

• 中文zhōng wénHSK 1

  Chinese language

• 英文yīng wénHSK 2

  English (language)

• 文物wén wùHSK 7

  cultural relic; historical relic

• 转化zhuǎn huàHSK 5

  to change; to transform; isomerization (chemistry)

• 进化jìn huàHSK 5

  evolution

• 强化qiáng huàHSK 6

  to strengthen; to intensify

• 净化jìng huàHSK 7

  to purify

• 融化róng huàHSK 7

  to melt; to thaw; to dissolve; to blend into; to combine; to fuse

• 化验huà yànHSK 7

  chemical examination; to do a lab test

• 化身huà shēnHSK 7

  incarnation; reincarnation; embodiment (of abstract idea); personification

• 现代化xiàn dài huàHSK 3

  modernization