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变迁

biàn qiān

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 變遷

变迁 (biàn qiān) means "changes; vicissitudes". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 变迁 means

1. changes
2. vicissitudes

The characters in 变迁

• 变biànto change; to become different; to transform
• 迁qiānto move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc)

Example sentences

• 人们很容易将能源和电力小组委员会的大多数成员描述为笨蛋。他们散布石油和煤炭公司炮制的虚假信息，以最大限度地减少全球气候变迁的重要性，被称为科学文盲。
  One can easily characterize a majority of the energy and power subcommittee members as nincompoops — scientific illiterates who spread misinformation crafted by oil and coal companies in order to minimize the significance of global climate change.

Sounds the same

Read biàn qiān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 便签note; memo

Where 变迁 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · biàn–biāo (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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