HSK 6 · Nature

化肥 huàféi “chemical fertiliser” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 化肥 means

  1. chemical fertiliser
  2. chemical fertilizer

How to say 化肥

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale化huà4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale肥féi2nd tone, rising

化肥 in a sentence

  1. 用太多化肥对土地不好。

    Yòng tài duō huàféi duì tǔdì bù hǎo.

    Using too much chemical fertiliser is bad for the land.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 他种的菜不用化肥。

    Tā zhòng de cài búyòng huàféi.

    He grows his vegetables without chemical fertiliser.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 化肥 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 化 (huà) with each of its parts in a different colour
化huàto make into
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 匕spoon · bǐ

Memory aidA person 亻 next to a person turned upside down 匕: to change, to transform.

The character 肥 (féi) with each of its parts in a different colour
肥féifat
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 巴to desire · bāSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 巴 (bā) hints at the sound. Compare it with féi.

How to write 化肥

化 4 strokes · 肥 8 strokes

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

Words related to 化肥

Words with 化

变化biànhuà · change文化wénhuà · culture消化xiāohuà · to digest (food or information)化学huàxué · chemistry化验huàyàn · laboratory test化妆huàzhuāng · to put on make-up恶化èhuà · to worsen简化jiǎnhuà · to simplify进化jìnhuà · evolution化石huàshí · fossil

Words with 肥

减肥jiǎnféi · to lose weight肥皂féizào · soap肥沃féiwò · fertile (of soil)

More words: Nature & Environment

灌溉guàngài · to irrigate光芒guāngmáng · rays of light洪水hóngshuǐ · flood花瓣huābàn · petal花蕾huālěi · flower bud化石huàshí · fossil回收huíshōu · to recycle火焰huǒyàn · flame

FAQs

化肥 (huàféi) means “chemical fertiliser” or “chemical fertilizer”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it huàféi: huà with a 4th tone, then féi with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 化肥 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huafei with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 化肥 from the suggestions. Typing huafei into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
化肥 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.