升華

See also: 升华 and 昇華

Chinese

		to raise; to hoist; to promote to raise; to hoist; to promote; pint	flowery; flourishing; magnificent flowery; flourishing; magnificent; your; grey; corona; time; essence; China; Chinese; name of a mountain
trad. (升華/昇華)		升/昇	華
simp. (升华)		升	华

Etymology

Sense #2 was influenced by Japanese 昇華(しょうか) (shōka).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shēnghuá

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄥㄏㄨㄚˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sing¹ waa⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): seng-hôa

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shēnghuá
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄥㄏㄨㄚˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shenghuá
  - Wade–Giles: shêng¹-hua²
  - Yale: shēng-hwá
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shenghwa
  - Palladius: шэнхуа (šɛnxua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ xu̯ä³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sing¹ waa⁴
  - Yale: sīng wàh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sing¹ waa⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: xing¹ wa⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ⁵⁵ waː²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seng-hôa
  - Tâi-lô: sing-huâ
  - Phofsit Daibuun: senghoaa
  - IPA (Xiamen): /siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hua²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siɪŋ³³ hua²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hua¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hua²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hua²³/

Verb

升華

(literary) to be promoted to a higher official post
(physics) to sublimate; to sublime
(psychology) to sublimate; to sublime
(figurative) to be elevated to the sublime; to raise to a higher level; to be purified
升華主題／升华主题 ― shēnghuá zhǔtí ― to transcend the theme

Antonyms

(to sublimate): 凝華／凝华 (nínghuá)