(huàn) - to change, to exchange, to swap in Mandarin
huànTraditional: 換
Translation
to change, to exchange, to swap
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the hand radical 扌gives the sense of a handling action and 奂 (huàn) supplies the sound, yielding to change, exchange or swap.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 扌 (hand radical) + 奂 (huàn, phonetic)
Stroke order
换
Examples
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I want to change into different clothes.
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Can you help me change some money?
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Let us move to a different place.
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He has changed to a new job.
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Please help me swap seats.
换 (huàn) means to change, to exchange, to swap. It is a verb for replacing one thing with another.
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