U+53D8 "变" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
变
U+53D8 "变" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to change," "to become," or "to transform," and it is composed of components suggesting alteration and action, often used in words like "变化" (biànhuà, meaning change) and "变成" (biànchéng, meaning to turn into). This ideograph is historically derived from script forms that depict the process of modification, and in modern usage, it is a common element in both formal and colloquial Chinese, expressing concepts of evolution, variation, or conversion across contexts from daily life to technical terminology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+53D8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 变 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 变 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8F 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x53D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000053D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u53d8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27594B |
| kCangjie | YCE |
| kCantonese | bin3 |
| kCowles | 3294 |
| kDefinition | change, transform, alter; rebel |
| kEACC | 27594B |
| kFennIndex | 409.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0040 |
| kGB0 | 1768 |
| kHanYu | 10397.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | biàn(1669) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10397.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0166.071 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3164 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-895A |
| kIRG_MSource | MA-895A |
| kTGH | 2013:1204 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAWARU KAERU |
| kJapaneseOn | HEN |
| kKangXi | 0166.071 |
| kKorean | PYEN |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6239 |
| kMandarin | biàn |
| kMatthews | 5245 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2361 |
| kPhonetic | 833* |
| kRSUnicode | 29.6 8.6 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8B8A<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 14.17 84.16 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 021.170:biàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "變" U+8B8A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 0066.070:biàn |