改
Meanings
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- 1.to change
- 2.to alter
- 3.to transform
- 4.to correct
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Wiktionary
- 1.to change; to transform; to alter; to modify
- 2.to correct; to improve
- 3.to mark; to correct; to grade (homework, an assignment, a test, etc.)
- 4.to come up with (a name)
- 5.to give up; to quit; to abstain from (a bad habit)
- 6.a surname
- 7.Classifier for times, as in frequency.
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Etymology
In the oracle bone script, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *klɯːʔ): phonetic 巳 (OC *ljɯʔ, *lɯs) + semantic 攴. The interpretation linked to a child beaten or threatened by a stick in hand to indicate "correct, amend" referred to educating a child is probably folk etymology. Since the small seal script, the phonetic component has been changed to 己 (OC *kɯʔ). Related to 革 (OC *krɯːɡ, “to change”), 更 (OC *kraːŋ, “to change”) (Wang, 1982).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
这必须改。
This must be changed.
湯姆能改變。
Tom can change.
計劃突然改變。
There was a sudden change of plan.
沒有多少改變。
Nothing much has changed.
我們要改哪裡？
Where do we have to change?
他們改變了制度。
They changed the system.
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Derived terms
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