Chinese symbol for “assimilation”
同化
tóng huà
assimilation (cultural, digestive, phonemic etc)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for assimilation is 同化 (tóng huà), defined as: assimilation (cultural, digestive, phonemic etc).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “assimilation”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 同化作用 | tóng huà zuò yòng | assimilation; anabolism (biology) |
| 合成代谢 (合成代謝) | hé chéng dài xiè | anabolism (biology); constructive metabolism (using energy to make proteins etc) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 同化.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 同时 (同時) | tóng shí | at the same time; simultaneously |
| 不同 | bù tóng | different; distinct |
| 共同 | gòng tóng | common; joint |
| 同样 (同樣) | tóng yàng | same; equal; similar; similarly; also; too |
| 同意 | tóng yì | to agree; to consent |
| 同志 | tóng zhì | comrade; (slang) homosexual |
| 文化 | wén huà | culture; civilization |
| 变化 (變化) | biàn huà | (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation |
See also: Japanese symbol for “assimilation”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.