变化 biànhuà▶ cambio; cambiar

Stroke order

变化 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 变 — 8 strokes
• 化 — 4 strokes

Senses

1. (intransitive) to change; to vary
2. change; variation

Example sentences

• 天气有变化。Tiānqì yǒu biànhuà.The weather has changed.
• 你的汉语有很大变化。Nǐ de hànyǔ yǒu hěn dà biànhuà.Your Chinese has changed a lot.

Related words

• 文化Cultura
• 改变cambio; cambiar
• 化学Química
• 消化Digestión
• 转变cambio; cambiar
• 化妆acicalarse; maquillarse

变化 is pronounced biànhuà and means “cambio; cambiar”. You will meet it in HSK 3, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 变化 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.