Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage today.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
合法化
to legalize
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to legalize
02
to make legal
03
legalization
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 合法化 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 合法化 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The Ottoman Empire decriminalized homosexuality in 1858.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 合法化.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 合法化.
Directly before
- 婚姻合法化1
- 同性恋合法化1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 合法化
What does 合法化 mean in Chinese?
合法化 (héfǎhuà) means to legalize.
How do you pronounce 合法化?
合法化 is pronounced héfǎhuà.
Is 合法化 an HSK word?
合法化 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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