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变
Meaning
- to change
- to become different
- to transform
Example sentence
雨变小了。
The rain is letting up.
The character 变
变 is something changing of itself where 改 is somebody changing it: 天气变了 against 改时间. 变成 is to turn into, 变化 is change as a noun, and 改变 puts both verbs together.