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改
Meaning
- to change
- to alter
- to transform
Example sentence
这必须改。
This must be changed.
The character 改
改 is 己, self, beside 攵, a hand holding a stick: correcting. 改变 to change something, 改进 to improve, 改正 to put right, 修改 to revise. What 变 does by itself, 改 has someone doing to it.