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Chinese symbol for “localize”

本土化
běn tǔ huà
to localize; localization

The closest CC-CEDICT match for localize is 本土化 (běn tǔ huà), defined as: to localize; localization.

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Characters and stroke order

本 běn
root, origin, source; basis
radical 75 ⽊ · 5 strokes
土 tǔ
soil, earth; items made of earth
radical 32 ⼟ · 3 strokes
化 huà
to change, to convert, to reform; -ize
radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes

Other Chinese words for “localize”

WordPinyinMeaning
国产化 (國產化)guó chǎn huàto localize (production); localization

Related words

Other words that share a character with 本土化.

WordPinyinMeaning
根本gēn běnfundamental; basic
基本jī běnbasic; fundamental
版本bǎn běnversion; edition
资本 (資本)zī běncapital (economics)
本来 (本來)běn láioriginal; originally
本身běn shēnitself; in itself
土地tǔ dìland; soil
领土 (領土)lǐng tǔterritory
文化wén huàculture; civilization

See also: Japanese symbol for “localize”.

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.