IDENTITY
变biànto change; to become
HSK 2Top 200
CORE MEANING
to change; to become
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to change; to becomeHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 又again radical (yòu)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱亦又
- the old form
- the moving hand
USAGE
Common words
变化biànhuàchange
改变gǎibiànto change
变成biànchéngto become
Graded examples
城市变化很大。Chéngshì biànhuà hěn dà.HSK3
The city has changed a lot.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 弯
LEARNING
Memory aid
A hand (又) reworking the old (亦) — transformation. (From 變.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #200
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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