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變

See also: 变
變 U+8B8A, 變
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B8A
← 讉
[U+8B89] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 讋 →
[U+8B8B]
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]

TranslingualEdit

Traditional 變
Shinjitai 変
Simplified 变

Han characterEdit

變 (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 ⿱䜌攵(U+8B8A) or ⿳亠⿲糸⿱𠄠口糸夂(U+FAC0) or ⿱䜌夂(U+2F9D1)

Derived charactersEdit

Related charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: 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

ChineseEdit

trad. 變
simp. 变
alternative forms 𢒛

Glyph originEdit

Characters in the same phonetic series (䜌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蠻 *mroːn
矕 *mroːnʔ
變 *prons
鸞 *b·roːn
巒 *b·roːn
灤 *b·roːn
欒 *b·roːn
鑾 *b·roːn
臠 *b·roːn, *b·ronʔ
羉 *b·roːn
䜌 *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons
灓 *b·roːn, *b·roːns, *b·rons
圝 *b·roːn
曫 *b·roːn
孿 *smroːns, *smrons
彎 *qroːn
灣 *qroːn
攣 *b·ron
孌 *b·ronʔ, *b·rons
戀 *b·rons
㪻 *pʰlons, *klons

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

PronunciationEdit

Note:
  • pìⁿ - vernacular;
  • piàn - literary.
Note:
  • bin3 - vernacular;
  • biêng3/biang3 - literary (biêng3 - Chaozhou).
Rime
Character 變
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 仙 (79)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 彼眷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/pˠiᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/pᵚiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/piænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/pianH/
Li
Rong 		/pjɛnH/
Wang
Li 		/pĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/pi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		biàn
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 變
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		biàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ pjenH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*pro[n]-s/
English change (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 變
Reading # 1/1
No. 8612
Phonetic
component
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		變
Old
Chinese 		/*prons/

DefinitionsEdit

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. sudden major change; unexpected change of events
  7. changeable; changing
  8. grotesque thing
  9. (Buddhism) bianwen (form of narrative literature from the Tang dynasty)
  10. (Hokkien) to do (bad things)
    汝佇變什物空氣？ [Min Nan, trad.]
    汝伫变什物空气？ [Min Nan, simp.]
    Lí tī pìⁿ sím-mi̍h khang-khùi? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
    What [bad thing] are you doing?

SynonymsEdit

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

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 變

JapaneseEdit

Shinjitai

変

Kyūjitai

變

KanjiEdit

變

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 変)

  1. change
  2. strange

ReadingsEdit

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

變 • (byeon) (hangeul 변, revised byeon, McCune–Reischauer pyŏn, Yale pyen)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

變 (biến, bén, bến)

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