皂化 zàohuà saponification, to saponify Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 皂 zào noun soap Cleansing agent such as bar soap or laundry soap.化 huà affixparticle [...-ize] Suffix appearing after nouns or adjectives that expresses a transformation into a certain state or quality, meaning "-ize" or "-ization"
