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to change

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

bian4 biàn

Meaning


Primary

to change

Alternatives

change, changes, changed, changing

Mnemonic


[bi-] Bigfoot is in the [4] bathroom of the [-an] pawn shop where he is trying out some magic ハ fins that were just pawned off to the shop. He places a 又 folding stool on the bathroom tile and 丶 drops the magic ハ fins onto it, and POOF, it 变 changes into a marble 丌 pedestal. Bigfoot, astonished, then 丶 drops the ハ fins on his own hairy self and POOF, he 变 changes into a normal, but still pretty hairy, human being!

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