升華

See also: 升华 and 昇華

Chinese

		to raise; to hoist; to promote to raise; to hoist; to promote; pint	flowery; flourishing; magnificent flowery; flourishing; magnificent; your; grey; corona; time; essence; China; Chinese; name of a mountain
trad. (升華/昇華)		升/昇	華
simp. (升华)		升	华

Etymology

Sense #2 was influenced by Japanese 昇華(しょうか) (shōka).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shēnghuá

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥ ㄏㄨㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing¹ waa⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): seng-hôa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shēnghuá
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥ ㄏㄨㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shenghuá
    • Wade–Giles: shêng¹-hua²
    • Yale: shēng-hwá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shenghwa
    • Palladius: шэнхуа (šɛnxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ xu̯ä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sing¹ waa⁴
    • Yale: sīng wàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing¹ waa⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xing¹ wa⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ⁵⁵ waː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seng-hôa
    • Tâi-lô: sing-huâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: senghoaa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hua²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɪŋ³³ hua²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hua¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hua²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hua²³/

Verb

升華

1. (literary) to be promoted to a higher official post
2. (physics) to sublimate; to sublime; (verbal noun) sublimation

   Antonym: 凝華／凝华 (nínghuá)

3. (psychology) to sublimate; to sublime
4. (figurative) to be elevated to the sublime; to raise to a higher level; to be purified