变
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to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 又 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 變
- Common rank
- #211
- Unicode
- U+53D8
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Words with 变
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 化学变化 | chemical change; chemical transformation | |
| 一成不变 | (idiom) immutable; impervious to change; set in stone | |
| 变分学 | calculus of variations (math.) | |
| 西安事变 | Xi'an Incident of 12th December 1936 (kidnap of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiang3 Jie4 shi2]) | |
| 变法儿 | to try by all available methods | |
| 自变数 | (math.) independent variable | |
| 变分法 | calculus of variations | |
| 不变 | constant; unvarying; (math.) invariant | |
| 大变 | huge changes | |
| 变心 | to cease to feel a sense of loyalty (or gratitude etc) to sb or sth; to fall out of love w… | |
| 流变学 | rheology | |
| 变天 | to have a change of weather (esp. for the worse); (fig.) to experience a major upheaval; t… | |
| 变性 | to denature; denaturation; to have a sex change; transsexual | |
| 机变 | improvisation; flexible; adaptable; pragmatic | |
| 变动 | to change; to fluctuate; change; fluctuation | |
| 意义变化 | change of meaning | |
| 变化 | (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation | |
| 变化音 | (music) accidental (a note foreign to the key signature) | |
| 变电 | power transformation | |
| 变体 | variant |