变迁 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

biàn change Simplified

Simplified form of 變. Phonosemantic compound. 夂 represents the meaning and 䜌 represents the sound.

Components

luán tie together

Change in sound

变 and 䜌 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

又 Simplified component

yòu again

Shorthand for the 夂 component in the traditional character 變. 夂 is a component form of 止.

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Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

qiān move Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 千 represents the sound. Simplified form of 遷.

Components

辶 Meaning component

chuò walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

千 Sound component

qiān thousand

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

跹

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	sn̥ʰiːn

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Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang

biàn change Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 夂 represents the meaning and 䜌 represents the sound.

Components

䜌 Sound component

luán tie together

Change in sound

變 and 䜌 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
變 *pro[n]-s
䜌 *mə.rˤo[n]

攵 Meaning component

pū tap

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	pjenH	pro[n]-s	change (v.)

說文解字

《說文》：“變，更也。从攴，聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

qiān move, shift Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 𠨧 represents the sound and 辶 represents the meaning.

Components

辶 Meaning component

chuò walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

𠨧 Sound component

qiān ascend

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𠨧 than it was in ancient scripts.

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Sound (1 of 2 verified)

韆躚

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tshjen	[tsʰ]ar	move (v.)

說文解字

登也。从辵𠨧聲。

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

变 biàn change Simplified

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迁 qiān move Simplified

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變 biàn change Traditional

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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遷 qiān move, shift Traditional

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Character Evolution

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Sound (1 of 2 verified)

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說文解字

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biàn change Simplified

qiān move Simplified

biàn change Traditional

qiān move, shift Traditional