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改成

gǎi chéng

2-character word

What 改成 means

1. to convert
2. to turn into (sth else)
3. to adapt (a story to another medium)

The characters in 改成

• 改gǎito change; to alter; to transform
• 成chéngto succeed; to finish; to complete

Example sentences

• 我三岁的时候把名字从汤姆改成了约翰。
  When I was three years old, my name was changed from Tom to John.
• 人们热切地寻求更有现代风格的衣服，所以把以前的旗袍改成了适合他们品位的东西。
  Rénmen rèqiè de xúnqiú gèng yǒu xiàndài fēnggé de yīfu, suǒyǐ bǎ yǐqián de qípáo gǎichéng le shìhé tāmen pǐnwèi de dōngxi.
  People eagerly sought a more modernised style of dress and transformed the old qipao to suit their tastes.
• 一些操作系统上有全角字符的文件名会显示为乱码，所以下载时请改成适当的文件名。
  Yīxiē cāozuòxìtǒng shàng yǒu quánjiǎo zìfú de wénjiànmíng huì xiǎnshì wéi luànmǎ, suǒyǐ xiàzǎi shí qǐng gǎichéng shìdàng de wénjiànmíng.
  On some OS's you get gibberish for filenames with full-width characters so when downloading please change to a suitable filename.