Chinese symbol for “reformatory”
感化院
gǎn huà yuàn
reformatory; reform school
The closest CC-CEDICT match for reformatory is 感化院 (gǎn huà yuàn), defined as: reformatory; reform school.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “reformatory”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 感化院.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 感觉 (感覺) | gǎn jué | feeling; impression; sensation; to feel; to perceive |
| 感到 | gǎn dào | to feel; to sense; to perceive |
| 感谢 (感謝) | gǎn xiè | to thank; to be grateful |
| 感受 | gǎn shòu | to sense; perception |
| 感情 | gǎn qíng | emotion; sentiment; affection; feelings between two persons |
| 感染 | gǎn rǎn | to infect; infection; (fig.) to influence |
| 文化 | wén huà | culture; civilization |
| 变化 (變化) | biàn huà | (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation |
| 医院 (醫院) | yī yuàn | hospital; measure word: 所 (suǒ), 家 (jiā), 座 (zuò) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “reformatory”.
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.