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化 [huà] 变化 change; 化学 chemistry; 文化 culture; (HDZ:) … [huā] 花: 耗费, 用掉 [huò] 貨 [é] (HDC:) 化/訛言

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The Shuōwén Seal form of 化 huà ‘change’ combines 亻(人) rén ‘person’, and 𠤎 huà ‘change (person upside down)’ (phonosemantic); formerly wr. 𠤎.
    Compare: 货/貨 huò ‘(exchange/trade/sale) goods; money’, formerly wr. 化.
    Note: The component 人 ‘standing/east-facing man’ (☶) when inverted becomes (changes into) 𠤎 ‘upside-down/fallen man’ (☳): the (rich) standing man influences/helps the (poor) fallen man change his circumstance (and potentially, vice versa); the meaning ‘change’ here relates to an experienced person teaching an inexperienced person (as in 教化 jiàohuà ‘educate/enlighten people’); when people offer/receive effective/persuasive education their hearts are transformed, their customs change, and they learn to get along in harmony, society changes for the better, human culture advances.
    Compare: 文化 wénhuà ‘human/civil culture’; 化缉/辑 huàjí ‘receive instruction/enlightenment, and work together in harmony’.
    Compare: 从 cóng ‘obey/follow’; 比 bǐ ‘vie/compare’; 北 běi ‘north (back-to-back)’; 舛 chuǎn ‘contradict’.
    HDZ: 化 : huà : 变化, 改变; 感化, 转变人心、风俗; 随顺, 仿效; 教化, (古) 统治者统治人民的理论、措施; 风俗, 风气; 造化, 自然的功能; 生, 产生; 育: 胎孕: 胚胎; 死 (孟子‧公孙丑下); 消化, 消融; 烧 (火化); 募化, 乞讨; 道观; 行为过分无礼; (简称) 化学; (词缀) (绿化, 美化, 电气化); (姓) • huā : 花: 耗费, 用掉 • huò : 貨
    HDC: 化緝/輯 : huàjí : 受教化而和睦相处
    HDC: 貨/化居 : huàjū : 坟墓 • huòjū : 居货为贾, (古) 化/货 (居貨爲賈)
    HDC: 貨居 : huòjū : 贮物待售; 货物, 商品
    HDC: 居貨/化 : jūhuò : 积货售卖 (cf. 貿)
►references: Guǎngyùn:423.39; Wieger:30d; Karlgren:AD93,GSR19a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.109.4; Lindqvist:26; Mathews:2211; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:152.20; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:008.0.09; Wáng(1993):140; EDOC:1
►components: 亻𠤎匕
 ►Cantonese: fa-
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-<WL>化 [huà] 变化 change; 化学 chemistry; 文化 culture@@  [huā] 花: 耗费, 用掉  [huò] 貨  [é] (HDC:) 化/訛言
+<WL>化 [huà] 变化 change; 化学 chemistry; 文化 culture@@; (HDZ:) …  [huā] 花: 耗费, 用掉  [huò] 貨  [é] (HDC:) 化/訛言
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 The Shuōwén Seal form of 化(􁙔) huà ‘change’ combines 亻(􁕎人) rén ‘person’, and 𠤎(􁙐) huà ‘change (person upside down)’ (phonosemantic); formerly wr. 𠤎.
-	Compare: 货/貨(􁄕) huò ‘(exchange/trade/sale) goods; money’, formerly wr. 化(􁙔); cf. 货.
+	Compare: 货/貨(􁄕) huò ‘(exchange/trade/sale) goods; money’, formerly wr. 化.
 	Note: The component 人(􁕎) ‘standing/east-facing man’ (☶) when inverted becomes (changes into) 𠤎(􁙐) ‘upside-down/fallen man’ (☳): the (rich) standing man influences/helps the (poor) fallen man change his circumstance (and potentially, vice versa); the meaning ‘change’ here relates to an experienced person teaching an inexperienced person (as in 教化 jiàohuà ‘educate/enlighten people’); when people offer/receive effective/persuasive education their hearts are transformed, their customs change, and they learn to get along in harmony, society changes for the better, human culture advances.
 	Compare: 文化 wénhuà ‘human/civil culture’; 化缉/辑 huàjí ‘receive instruction/enlightenment, and work together in harmony’.