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U+8B8A, 變
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B8A

[U+8B89]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8B8B]

U+FAC0, 變
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FAC0
謹
[U+FABF]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+FAC1]
變 U+2F9D1, 變
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9D1
諭
[U+2F9D0]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 豕
[U+2F9D2]

Translingual[edit]

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 149, +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 )

Derived characters[edit]

Related characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: 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

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp.
alternative forms 𢒛

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Etymology[edit]

Likely related to (OC *roːns, “disorder”) (Baxter, 1992). Perhaps related to Tibetan སྤྲུལ་བ (sprul ba, to transform) (Shi, 2000)and Burmese ပြောင်း (praung:, to change).

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • pìⁿ - vernacular;
  • piàn - literary.
Note:
  • bin3 - vernacular;
  • biêng3/biang3 - literary (biêng3 - Chaozhou).
  • Wu

  • Rime
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial () (1)
    Final () (79)
    Tone (調) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division () III
    Fanqie
    Baxter pjenH
    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
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex
    bin3
    BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character
    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
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 8612
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group
    Rime
    subdivision
    3
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese
    /*prons/

    Definitions[edit]

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

    Synonyms[edit]

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

    Compounds[edit]

    Descendants[edit]

    Japanese[edit]

    Shinjitai

    Kyūjitai

    Kanji[edit]

    (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

    1. change
    2. strange

    Readings[edit]

    Definitions[edit]

    For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
    4
    [kanji] Grade 4 kanji
    [kanji] change
    [kanji] strange; odd
    [kanji] (music) used to denote flat accidentals
    Kanji reading:
    へん, かえる, かわる
    (This term, , is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

    Korean[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    (eumhun 변할 (byeonhal byeon))

    1. Hanja form? of (change).

    Compounds[edit]

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    : Hán Nôm readings: biến, bén, bến

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