气化

Traditional form:

氣化

Pinyin (reading):

qìhuà

Definitions:

• to vaporize
• evaporation
• carburetion
• 氣／气 (qì) transformation in TCM (i.e. transformation of yin yang vital breath)
• unvoicing of voiced consonant

Characters:

• 气 - air, gas; steam, vapor; anger
• 化 - to change, to convert, to reform; -ize

Traditional characters:

• 氣 - air, gas; steam, vapor; anger
• 化 - to change, to convert, to reform; -ize