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Chinese symbol for “warming”

暖化
nuǎn huà
warming

The closest CC-CEDICT match for warming is 暖化 (nuǎn huà), defined as: warming.

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Characters and stroke order

暖 nuǎn
warm, genial
radical 72 ⽇ · 13 strokes
化 huà
to change, to convert, to reform; -ize
radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes

Other Chinese words for “warming”

WordPinyinMeaning
煦暖xù nuǎnto warm; warming

Related words

Other words that share a character with 暖化.

WordPinyinMeaning
温暖 (溫暖)wēn nuǎnwarm
取暖qǔ nuǎnto warm oneself (by a fire, heater etc)
暖气 (暖氣)nuǎn qìcentral heating; heater
暖和nuǎn huowarm; nice and warm
保暖bǎo nuǎnto keep warm
文化wén huàculture; civilization
变化 (變化)biàn huà(intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation
现代化 (現代化)xiàn dài huàmodernization; 个 (gè)

See also: Japanese symbol for “warming”.

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.