改 (gǎi)
to change; to correct; to alter
How 改 is written
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 己 — oneself
- Traditional
- 改
- Simplified
- 改 (unchanged)
Components
- 己 oneself
- ⺙ knock
Common words using 改
- 改為 gǎiwéi
- to change into
- 改變 gǎibiàn
- to change; to alter; to transform
- 修改 xiūgǎi
- to amend; to alter; to modify
- 改名 gǎimíng
- to change ones name
- 改善 gǎishàn
- to make better; to improve; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 改天 gǎitiān
- another day; some other time; to find another day (for appointment etc)
- 改成 gǎichéng
- to convert; to turn into (sth else); to adapt (a story to another medium)
- 改掉 gǎidiào
- to drop a bad habit
- 改正 gǎizhèng
- to correct; to amend; to put right
- 改版 gǎibǎn
- to revise the current edition; revised edition
- 改編 gǎibiān
- to adapt; to rearrange; to revise
- 改裝 gǎizhuāng
- to change one's costume; to repackage; to remodel
改 in a sentence
這件褲子太長了，需要改短一點。
Zhè jiàn kùzi tài cháng le, xūyào gǎi duǎn yìdiǎn.
“These pants are too long; they need to be altered to be shorter.”
How common is 改?
改 is the 350th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 68.1% of all running text.
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