變
biàn HSK2

change

变 變 biàn
to change verb
to change; to become different; to transform into something else

你永远不会变，对吗？

nǐ yǒng​yuǎn bù​huì biàn, duì ma?

You're never going to change, are you?

电影工业变了许多。

diàn​yǐng gōng​yè biàn le xǔ​duō.

The movie industry has changed a lot.

to transform nounverb
to change or transform something; to convert
changeable nounadjective
(bound form) changeable; adaptable; varying
to perform verb
to perform; to do something through skill or trickery, such as magic tricks
incident noun
a sudden or major event; a rebellion; a disturbance or emergency
to sell off
to sell something off to exchange it for cash
surname
a Chinese surname
flexible
flexible; adaptable to circumstances; expedient
calamity
a disaster or unusual natural phenomenon

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
225th most common 956.7 per million
Movie subtitles
262nd most common 644.8 per million appears in 93% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
315.4 per million appears in 69% of films
Written text
185.7 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Simplified
变
Strokes
23
Unicode
U+8B8A

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)