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Chinese symbol for “socialize”

社会化
shè huì huà
Traditional: 社會化
to socialize

The closest CC-CEDICT match for socialize is 社会化 (shè huì huà), defined as: to socialize.

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Characters and stroke order

社 shè
group, organization, society; a god of the soil
radical 113 ⽰ · 8 strokes
会 huì
to assemble, to meet; meeting; association, group
radical 9 ⼈ · 6 strokes
化 huà
to change, to convert, to reform; -ize
radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “socialize”

WordPinyinMeaning
应酬 (應酬)yìng chouto engage in social activities; to socialize; dinner party; banquet; social engagement
周旋zhōu xuánto mix with others; to socialize
走动 (走動)zǒu dòngto walk around; to move about; to visit one another; to socialize

Related words

Other words that share a character with 社会化.

WordPinyinMeaning
社会 (社會)shè huìsociety
社区 (社區)shè qūcommunity; neighborhood
社会主义 (社會主義)shè huì zhǔ yìsocialism
社交shè jiāosocial interaction
出版社chū bǎn shèpublishing house
社团 (社團)shè tuánassociation; society
不会 (不會)bù huìimprobable; unlikely
会议 (會議)huì yìmeeting; conference
文化wén huàculture; civilization

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.