biàn

Traditional: 变

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Translation

to change, to transform

Stroke order

Stroke order for 变

Examples

The weather changed our plans.

The weather suddenly turned cold.

He has become more confident.

The weather has turned cold.

He has changed a lot.

变 (biàn) means to change or transform. It works as a free verb but is most common in compounds: 改变 (to alter), 变成 (to turn into), and the resultative 变得 (to become).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 变.

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This word is part of lesson 102.