變聲

Chinese edit

		to change; to become different; to transform to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion	sound; voice; (a measure word, used for sounds) sound; voice; (a measure word, used for sounds); tone; noise
trad. (變聲)		變	聲
simp. (变声)		变	声

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: biànshēng
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ ㄕㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: biànsheng
  - Wade–Giles: pien⁴-shêng¹
  - Yale: byàn-shēng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biannsheng
  - Palladius: бяньшэн (bjanʹšɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bin³ seng¹
  - Yale: bin sēng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bin³ seng¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bin³ séng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn³³ sɛːŋ⁵⁵/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: bi̿ng-siáng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ³³ siaŋ⁵⁴/

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*pro[n]-s [l̥]eŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*prons qʰjeŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	變	聲
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biàn	shēng
Middle Chinese	‹ pjen^H ›	‹ syeng ›
Old Chinese	/*pro[n]-s/	/*[l̥]eŋ/
English	change (v.)	sound (n.)
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.

變聲

to experience one's voice breaking (deepening of the voice upon reaching puberty)
to change voice artificially
to speak with an altered voice due to being emotional