化
Meaning
- to make into
- to change into
- -ization
Example sentence
你读化学吗？
Are you a chemistry student?
The character 化
化 is two people drawn one upright and one upside-down: turning into. As a suffix it does the work of English -ise and -isation — 现代化 — and alone it gives 变化 change, 文化 culture, 消化 digestion.