20世纪早期，“化”的后缀用法在汉语中快速形成。以往的研究表明，这一用法的形成受日语影响。尽管如此，关于汉语后缀“化”的历史及与其相关的中日词汇交流情况尚有诸多研究空白。本文通过调查19世纪以后出版的英华辞典、近代最具影响力的报纸之一《申报》等资料，对后缀“化”的形成历史、汉日两种语言之间的交流情况进行了考察。结果显示：（一）约1915年以前，日语直接推动了汉语中“化”的词缀化进程。其具体表现为，1900年前后，在辞典、报纸这些媒介中，日制汉字词“～化”输入汉语；在化学领域，受日语影响，“化”成为化合物命名法中不可或缺的语素。（二）20世纪20年代，随着新文化运动的完成，以二字词为中心的近现代汉语词汇体系基本形成，表示“变化、进化”的“化”与众多新兴词语相结合，“化”的后缀用法在汉语中迅速发展、普及。
In the early 20th century，the use of the suffix-hua（化）was rapidly developed in Chinese. Previous studies have shown that this usage was influenced by Japanese. Despite this，there are still many gaps in research on the history of the suffix-hua（化）and its associated lexical communications between Chinese and Japanese. This paper examines the history of the formation of the suffix-hua（化）and the lexical communications between Chinese and Japanese through a survey of English-Chinese dictionaries published from the 19th century onwards，and one of the most influential newspapers of the modern era，Shenbao（《申报》）. The results show that：First，before around 1915，Japanese directly contributed to the suffixation of the character hua（化）in Chinese. This was evident in the importation of the Japanese word～ka（～化）into Chinese around 1900 in dictionaries and newspapers，and later in the field of chemistry，where-hua（化）became an essential element in the nomenclature of compounds. Second，in the 1920s，with the completion of the New Culture Movement（新文化运动），the modern Chinese lexical system was basically formed with two-character words as its centre，and the character hua（化），which signifies “change and evolution”，was combined with many new words. The use of the suffix-hua（化）rapidly developed and became widespread in Chinese.
