變

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See also: 变 and 変
變 U+8B8A, 變
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B8A
← 讉
[U+8B89] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 讋 →
[U+8B8B]
Ufac0.svg
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]

Translingual[edit]

Traditional 變
Shinjitai 変
Simplified 变

Han character[edit]

變 (Kangxi 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 characters[edit]

Related characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

trad. 變
simp. 变
alternative forms 𢒛

Glyph origin[edit]

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.

Etymology[edit]

Likely related to 亂 (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 變
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
    Final (韻) 仙 (79)
    Tone (調) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) 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
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		bin3
    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/

    Definitions[edit]

    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. 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)
      汝佇變什物空氣？ [Hokkien, trad.]
      汝伫变什物空气？ [Hokkien, simp.]
      Lí tī pìⁿ sím-mi̍h khang-khùi? [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
      What [bad thing] are you doing?

    Synonyms[edit]

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

    Derived terms from 變

    Descendants[edit]

    • → Thai: เปลี่ยน (bplìian)

    Japanese[edit]

    Shinjitai

    		変

    Kyūjitai

    		變

    Kanji[edit]

    變

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

    1. change
    2. strange

    Readings[edit]

    Definitions[edit]

    For pronunciation and definitions of 變 – see the following entry.
    【変へん】4
    [adjective] strange
    [noun] a change
    (This term, 變, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

    Korean[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    變 (eumhun 변할 변 (byeonhal byeon))

    1. Hanja form? of 변 (“change”).

    Compounds[edit]

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    變: Hán Nôm readings: biến, bén, bến

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