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Mythic Mandarin

变化 (biàn huà): meaning and stroke order

变化 (biàn huà) means (intransitive) to change; to vary, change; variation (个).

变化

Simplified
变化
Traditional
變化
Pinyin
biàn huà

Stroke order of 变化

变

  • biàn to change; to become different
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 變

Stroke by stroke

化

  • huā variant of 花[hua1]
  • huà to make into; to change into
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 变化

  1. biàn huà Traditional 變化
    • (intransitive) to change; to vary
    • change; variation (CL:個|个[ge4])

Radicals of the characters

变
Radical 又 (Kangxi radical 29) · 8 strokes
化
Radical 匕 (Kangxi radical 21) · 4 strokes · 亻 on the left, 𠤎 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Where you learn it

变化 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 3 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).