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演变

yǎn biàn

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

演变 (yǎn biàn) means "to develop; to evolve; development". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 演变 means

1. to develop; to evolve

The characters in 演变

• 演yǎnto perform (a play etc); to stage (a show); (bound form) to develop; to play out…
• 变biànto change; to become different; to transform

Example sentences

• 起初的天灾迅速演变为了人祸。
  Qǐchū de tiānzāi xùnsù yǎnbiàn wèile rénhuò.
  What was at first a natural disaster rapidly became a man-made debacle.

Sounds the same

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

• 衍变to develop; to evolve

Where 演变 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yǎn (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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