HSK 6 · Clothing

化妆 huàzhuāng “to put on make-up” in Chinese

Traditional 化妝

What 化妆 means

  1. to put on make-up
  2. to put on makeup

How to say 化妆

  • 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 first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale妆zhuāng1st tone, high and level

化妆 in a sentence

  1. 她即使不化妆也非常可爱。

    Tā jíshǐ bú huàzhuāng yě fēicháng kě'ài.

    Even without make-up, she’s really lovely.

    Sentence #12166254 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 化妆太浓的话脸会看着很奇怪。

    Huàzhuāng tài nóng de huà liǎn huì kàn zhe hěn qíguài.

    If your make-up is too heavy, your face looks strange.

    Sentence #8690317 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 她从不化妆，但总是看起来很迷人。

    Tā cóngbú huàzhuāng, dàn zǒngshì kànqǐlai hěn mírén.

    She never wears make-up, but she always looks charming.

    Sentence #2188443 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 化妆 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 妆 (zhuāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
妆zhuāngto adorn oneself
  • 丬half of tree trunk · qiángSound part
  • 女woman · nǚMeaning part

女 hints at the meaning (woman); 丬 (qiáng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhuāng.

How to write 化妆

化 4 strokes · 妆 6 strokes

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

Words related to 化妆

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恶化èhuà · to worsen简化jiǎnhuà · to simplify进化jìnhuà · evolution化肥huàféi · chemical fertiliser化石huàshí · fossil

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FAQs

化妆 (huàzhuāng) means “to put on make-up” or “to put on makeup”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it huàzhuāng: huà with a 4th tone, then zhuāng 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, 化妆 is written 化妝. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huazhuang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 化妆 from the suggestions. Typing huazhuang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
化妆 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.