蛻變

Chinese

		exuviae of insects or reptiles	to change; to become different; to transform to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion
trad. (蛻變)		蛻	變
simp. (蜕变)		蜕	变

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tuìbiàn, shuìbiàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄟˋ ㄅㄧㄢˋ, ㄕㄨㄟˋ ㄅㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): teoi³ bin³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thùi-piàn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tuìbiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄟˋ ㄅㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tuèibiàn
    • Wade–Giles: tʻui⁴-pien⁴
    • Yale: twèi-byàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tueybiann
    • Palladius: туйбянь (tujbjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuìbiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˋ ㄅㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuèibiàn
    • Wade–Giles: shui⁴-pien⁴
    • Yale: shwèi-byàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shueybiann
    • Palladius: шуйбянь (šujbjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: teoi³ bin³
    • Yale: teui bin
    • Cantonese Pinyin: toey³ bin³
    • Guangdong Romanization: têu³ bin³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɵy̯³³ piːn³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thùi-piàn
    • Tâi-lô: thuì-piàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tuie'piexn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰui²¹⁻⁵³ piɛn²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰui⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ piɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰui²¹⁻⁵³ piɛn²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰui¹¹⁻⁵³ piɛn¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰui²¹⁻⁴¹ piɛn²¹/

Verb

蛻變

1. to transform (into something bad); to transmute; to change qualitatively; to deteriorate
2. (physics, of a nucleus) to decay

Synonyms

• (to decay): 衰變／衰变 (shuāibiàn)