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變

biàn

change

Phonosemantic compound. 夂 represents the meaning and 䜌 represents the sound.

Components
䜌 sound component

䜌  Sound component

luán

  

tie together

攵 meaning component

攵  Meaning component

pū

  

tap

Evolution

變 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
變 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
變 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
變 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

变 (變) 

biàn

change, transform, alter; rebel; to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion

Most common words with 變
Freq.
Word
Meaning

变

to change

改变

to change

变成

to change into

变化

change

变得

to become

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pro[n]-s

pjenH

biàn

change (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 93.3526% of movies

262nd most common character in movies

225th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Simplified

变

Unicode

U+8B8A

Shuowen

“變，更也。从攴，聲。”


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