"美化" meaning in Chinese

See 美化 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /mei̯¹³ faː³³/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/ [Hokkien, Xiamen], /bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hua⁴¹/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/ [Hokkien, Zhangzhou], /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua¹¹/ [Hokkien, Taipei], /bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/, /mei̯¹³ faː³³/, /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/, /bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hua⁴¹/, /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/, /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua¹¹/, /bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/ Chinese transliterations: měihuà [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄇㄟˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], mei⁵ faa³ [Cantonese, Jyutping], bí-hòa, měihuà [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], měihuà [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], mei³-hua⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], měi-hwà [Mandarin, Yale], meeihuah [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], мэйхуа [Mandarin, Palladius], mɛjxua [Mandarin, Palladius], méih fa [Cantonese, Yale], mei⁵ faa³ [Cantonese, Pinyin], méi⁵ fa³ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], bí-hòa [Hokkien, POJ], bí-huà [Hokkien, Tai-lo], by'hoax [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun]
Head templates: {{zh-verb}} 美化
  1. to beautify; to embellish
    Sense id: en-美化-zh-verb-y5u1CuUa
  2. to glamorize; to describe or represent as good (something bad)
    Sense id: en-美化-zh-verb-SlODmI2i Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 32 68 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 17 23 2 2 11 27 8 8
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "chǒuhuà",
      "word": "醜化"
    },
    {
      "roman": "chǒuhuà",
      "word": "丑化"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "美化",
      "name": "zh-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to beautify one's homeland",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "měihuà jiāyuán",
          "text": "美化家園",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "to beautify one's homeland",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "měihuà jiāyuán",
          "text": "美化家园",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "to beautify the city",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "měihuà shìróng",
          "text": "美化市容",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to beautify; to embellish"
      ],
      "id": "en-美化-zh-verb-y5u1CuUa",
      "links": [
        [
          "beautify",
          "beautify"
        ],
        [
          "embellish",
          "embellish"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 17 23 2 2 11 27 8 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to glamorize a war of aggression",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "měihuà qīnlüèzhànzhēng",
          "text": "美化侵略戰爭",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "to glamorize a war of aggression",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "měihuà qīnlüèzhànzhēng",
          "text": "美化侵略战争",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to glamorize; to describe or represent as good (something bad)"
      ],
      "id": "en-美化-zh-verb-SlODmI2i",
      "links": [
        [
          "glamorize",
          "glamorize"
        ],
        [
          "describe",
          "describe"
        ],
        [
          "represent",
          "represent"
        ],
        [
          "good",
          "good"
        ],
        [
          "bad",
          "bad"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "měihuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄇㄟˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mei⁵ faa³"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "bí-hòa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "měihuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "měihuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mei³-hua⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "měi-hwà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "meeihuah"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "мэйхуа"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mɛjxua"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méih fa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mei⁵ faa³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méi⁵ fa³"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mei̯¹³ faː³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bí-hòa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bí-huà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "by'hoax"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hua⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua¹¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mei̯¹³ faː³³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hua⁴¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua¹¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "美化"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "chǒuhuà",
      "word": "醜化"
    },
    {
      "roman": "chǒuhuà",
      "word": "丑化"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 化",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 美",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Chinese verbs",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
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      "name": "zh-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to beautify one's homeland",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "měihuà jiāyuán",
          "text": "美化家園",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "to beautify one's homeland",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "měihuà jiāyuán",
          "text": "美化家园",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "to beautify the city",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "měihuà shìróng",
          "text": "美化市容",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to beautify; to embellish"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beautify",
          "beautify"
        ],
        [
          "embellish",
          "embellish"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to glamorize a war of aggression",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "měihuà qīnlüèzhànzhēng",
          "text": "美化侵略戰爭",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "to glamorize a war of aggression",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "měihuà qīnlüèzhànzhēng",
          "text": "美化侵略战争",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to glamorize; to describe or represent as good (something bad)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "glamorize",
          "glamorize"
        ],
        [
          "describe",
          "describe"
        ],
        [
          "represent",
          "represent"
        ],
        [
          "good",
          "good"
        ],
        [
          "bad",
          "bad"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "měihuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄇㄟˇ ㄏㄨㄚˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mei⁵ faa³"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "bí-hòa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "měihuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "měihuà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mei³-hua⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "měi-hwà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "meeihuah"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "мэйхуа"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mɛjxua"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méih fa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mei⁵ faa³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méi⁵ fa³"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mei̯¹³ faː³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bí-hòa"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bí-huà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "by'hoax"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hua⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua¹¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mei̯¹³ faː³³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hua⁴¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua¹¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hua²¹/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "美化"
}

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