to change
How it’s built
Pictograph of a right-side up person and an upside-down person, depicting the meaning "turn around" or "transform".
person — 亻 is a component form of 人.
spoon; ladle — Used here to depict an upside-down person.
Through the ages
Appears in
Characters that use 化 as a component, most common first.
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