Sentence #1862265 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 文化 is built
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文wénlanguage
亠lid · tóu
乂to govern · yì
Memory aidDrawn from a person with a pattern on the chest. It came to mean writing and culture.
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.
How to write 文化
文 4 strokes · 化 4 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 文化 (wénhuà). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
文化 (wénhuà) means “culture” or “civilisation”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it wénhuà: wén with a 2nd tone, then huà with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 文化 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 个 (gè) or 种 (zhǒng). For example, one culture is 一个文化 (yí ge wénhuà).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wenhua with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 文化 from the suggestions. Typing wenhua into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
文化 is an HSK 3 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.
文wén2nd tone, rising
化huà4th tone, falling
