HSK 6 · Nature

蒸发 zhēngfā “to evaporate” in Chinese

Traditional 蒸發

What 蒸发 means

  1. to evaporate
  2. evaporation
  3. to vanish
  4. (fig.) to vanish
  5. to disappear

How to say 蒸发

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale蒸zhēng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale发fā1st tone, high and level

蒸发 in a sentence

  1. 沸水蒸发成气体。

    Fèishuǐ zhēngfā chéng qìtǐ.

    Boiling water evaporates into a gas.

    Sentence #3537860 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 当水被加热时，水汽蒸发。

    Dāng shuǐ bèi jiārè shí, shuǐqì zhēngfā.

    When water is heated, it evaporates as vapour.

    Sentence #797104 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 蒸发 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 蒸 (zhēng) with each of its parts in a different colour
蒸zhēngto evaporate
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎo
  • 烝to rise · zhēng
The character 发 (fā) drawn as one shape
发fāto send out

发 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 蒸发

蒸 13 strokes · 发 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

蒸发 (zhēngfā) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 蒸发 (zhēngfā). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 蒸发

Words with 发

发fā · send out发烧fāshāo · have a fever头发tóufa · hair on the head发现fāxiàn · discover发生fāshēng · to happen发展fāzhǎn · development理发lǐfà · to get a haircut出发chūfā · to set off沙发shāfā · sofa发言fāyán · to make a speech

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杂交zájiāo · to hybridise噪音zàoyīn · noise照耀zhàoyào · to shine on沼泽zhǎozé · swamp枝zhī · branch支流zhīliú · tributary (river)种植zhòngzhí · to plant种子zhǒngzi · seed

FAQs

蒸发 (zhēngfā) means “to evaporate” or “evaporation”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhēngfā: zhēng with a 1st tone, then fā with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 蒸发 is written 蒸發. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhengfa with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 蒸发 from the suggestions. Typing zhengfa into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
蒸发 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.