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變

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See also: 变 and 変
變 U+8B8A, 變
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B8A
← 讉
[U+8B89] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 讋 →
[U+8B8B]
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變 U+FAC0, 變
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FAC0
← 謹
[U+FABF] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 贈 →
[U+FAC1]
變 U+2F9D1, 變
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9D1
← 諭
[U+2F9D0] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 豕 →
[U+2F9D2]

Translingual

More information Traditional, Shinjitai ...

Han character

變 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+16, 23 strokes, cangjie input 女火人大 (VFOK) or 卜女火水 (YVFE) or 女火竹水 (VFHE), four-corner 22408, composition ⿱龻攵)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1186, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36117
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1650, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1481, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8B8A
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 變, Western Zhou ...
Characters in the same phonetic series (䜌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
More information Old Chinese ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *prons): phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons) + semantic 攴.

Etymology

Likely related to 亂 (OC *roːns, “disorder”) (Baxter, 1992). Perhaps related to Tibetan སྤྲུལ་བ (sprul ba, “to transform”) (Shi, 2000) and Burmese ပြောင်း (praung:, “to change”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • bing4 - vernacular;
  • beng4 - literary.
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More information Character, Reading # ...
More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

變

  1. (intransitive) to change (by itself); to transform
  2. (transitive) to change (something in some way); to alter; to transform
  3. (intransitive) to become; to turn into; to change into
  4. (transitive) to sell off (one's property)
  5. (intransitive) to be flexible (when dealing with matters); to accommodate to circumstances
  6. to perform a magic trick
  7. sudden major change; unexpected change of events
  8. changeable; changing
  9. grotesque thing
  10. (Buddhism) bianwen (form of narrative literature from the Tang dynasty)

Synonyms

  • (to change by itself):
  • (to change something in some way):
  • (to become):

Compounds

Descendants

  • Tai Languages
    • → Proto-Southwestern Tai: *pliənᴮ²
      • Thai: เปลี่ยน (bplìian)
      • Lao: ປ່ຽນ (pīan)
      • Lü: ᦵᦔᧃᧈ (ṗen¹)
      • Tai Dam: ꪜꪸ꪿ꪙ
      • Shan: ပိၼ်ႇ (pìn)
      • Tai Nüa: ᥙᥤᥢᥱ (pǐn)
    • Northern Tai
      • Zhuang: bienq
    • Central Tai
      • Nong Zhuang: byenq, benq

References

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Japanese

Shinjitai

 変

Kyūjitai

 變

Kanji

變

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 変)

  1. change
  2. strange

Readings

  • Go-on: へん (hen)
  • Kan-on: へん (hen)
  • Kun: かえる (kaeru, 變える)←かへる (kaferu, 變へる, historical)、かわる (kawaru, 變わる)←かはる (kafaru, 變はる, historical)

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 變 – see the following entry.
【変】4
[kanji] fourth grade kanji
[kanji] change
[kanji] strange; odd
[kanji] (music) used to denote flat accidentals
Kanji reading:
へん, かえる, かわる
(This term, 變, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

變 (eumhun 변할 변 (byeonhal byeon))

  1. hanja form? of 변 (“change”)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

變: Hán Nôm readings: biến, bén, bến

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