HSK 5 · Education

化学 huàxué “chemistry” in Chinese

Traditional 化學

What 化学 means

  1. chemistry
  2. chemical

How to say 化学

  • 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学xué2nd tone, rising

化学 in a sentence

  1. 物理和化学你更喜欢哪个？

    Wùlǐ hé huàxué nǐ gèng xǐhuan nǎ ge?

    Which do you prefer, physics or chemistry?

    Sentence #380724 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我在大学主修化学。

    Wǒ zài dàxué zhǔxiū huàxué.

    I majored in chemistry at university.

    Sentence #795794 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 这个垃圾袋不含任何有害化学物质。

    Zhè ge lājī dài bù hán rènhé yǒuhài huàxué wùzhì.

    This rubbish bag doesn’t contain any harmful chemicals.

    Sentence #8800818 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 化学 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 学 (xué) with each of its parts in a different colour
学xuéto learn
  • ⺍small form of 小 · xiǎo
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 子child · zǐ

Memory aidA roof 冖 over a child 子 at study.

How to write 化学

化 4 strokes · 学 8 strokes

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

Words related to 化学

Words with 化

变化biànhuà · change文化wénhuà · culture消化xiāohuà · to digest (food or information)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化肥huàféi · chemical fertiliser化石huàshí · fossil

Words with 学

学xué · to learn学生xuésheng · student同学tóngxué · classmate学校xuéxiào · school学习xuéxí · to study大学dàxué · university上学shàngxué · to go to school小学xiǎoxué · elementary school中学zhōngxué · middle school大学生dàxuéshēng · university student

More words: Education & Learning

成语chéngyǔ · idiom词汇cíhuì · vocabulary地理dìlǐ · geography辅导fǔdǎo · to give guidance讲座jiǎngzuò · lecture教材jiàocái · teaching material经典jīngdiǎn · classic课程kèchéng · course

FAQs

化学 (huàxué) means “chemistry” or “chemical”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it huàxué: huà with a 4th tone, then xué with a 2nd 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, 化学 is written 化學. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huaxue with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 化学 from the suggestions. Typing huaxue into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
化学 is an HSK 5 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.