孵化
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to incubate
🐣 孵 hatch + 化 transform = hatching/incubating into something new
孵 is the hatch/brood character (egg-related radical 卵). 化 means change or transform. Together: bring something from egg-stage into being — literal for chicks, figurative for startups and ideas being incubated.
化 — person 亻 + spoon/upside-down person 匕
化 is an associative compound showing a standing person 亻 next to 匕, originally a depiction of a person turned upside-down. Together they suggest a figure transforming from one state to another, giving the core meaning 'change' or 'transform'. The character later extended to senses like 'convert', 'influence', and the noun suffix '-ization'.