IDENTITY
改gǎito change; to correct
HSK 2Top 250
CORE MEANING
to change; to correct
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to changeHSK2
- 2.to correctHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 攵strike radical (pū)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰己攵
- oneself
- the correcting hand
USAGE
Common words
改变gǎibiànto change
改正gǎizhèngto correct
改进gǎijìnto improve
Graded examples
这个城市改变了很多。Zhège chéngshì gǎibiàn le hěn duō.HSK3
This city has changed a lot.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A hand (攵) straightening oneself (己) — self-correction, change.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #250
- 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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