變身

See also: 变身 and 変身

Chinese

		to change; to become different; to transform to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion	body; torso; person body; torso; person; life; status; pregnancy; (a measure word used for clothes) suit
trad. (變身)		變	身
simp. (变身)		变	身

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biànshēn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ ㄕㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin³ san¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biànshēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ ㄕㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biànshen
    • Wade–Giles: pien⁴-shên¹
    • Yale: byàn-shēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biannshen
    • Palladius: бяньшэнь (bjanʹšɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹ ʂən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bin³ san¹
    • Yale: bin sān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin³ san¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin³ sen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn³³ sɐn⁵⁵/

Noun

變身

1. change of one's body into something else (frequently used in fiction and media, as the magical transforming of heroes: Superman, Transformer, etc.)
   1. complete change of one's appearance
   2. metamorphosis or transformation into something else
2. body so transformed

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (變身):

• → Japanese: 変身(へんしん) (henshin)
• → Korean: 변신(變身) (byeonsin)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
變	身
へん Hyōgaiji	しん Grade: 3
on’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 變身 – see the following entry.

【変身へんしん】 [noun] [from 1060] a transformation of one's appearance [noun] [from 1060] shapeshifting, a transformation of one's body, particularly of a human into some other creature or form [noun] [from 1060] an appearance or body so transformed [interjection] (fiction) Transform! [verb] to transform one's appearance [verb] to shapeshift, to transform physically into some other creature or form

(This term, 變身, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja in this term
變	身

Noun

變身 • (byeonsin) (hangeul 변신)

1. Hanja form^? of 변신 (“transformation”).