Dictionary🇨🇳 Chinese → 🇺🇸 English
现代化
xiàndàihuà
Description
"现代化"的意思是让东西变得更新、更先进，像现代社会一样。
"现代化" means making things newer and more advanced, like modern society.
我们常说城市现代化、工业现代化。
We often talk about urban modernization and industrial modernization.
Meanings
现代化xiàndàihuà
modernization; to modernize
这个城市变得越来越现代化了。
This city is becoming more and more modern.
现代化xiàndàihuà
modern; up-to-date (as adjective)
他家有很多现代化的家电。
He has many modern appliances at home.
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Notes
- Etymology
现代 (modern era) + 化 (a suffix meaning "-ize/-ization").
- Nuance
functions as both noun/verb (modernization) and adjective (modern, advanced).
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