拼音
- huàn (fourth tone, falling)
to exchange, to swap, to trade; to change, to replace; to change (money, clothes, trains)
字形拆解
Ideographic description
⿰扌奂The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.
- 扌meaning partno entry yetThe hand radical: an exchange is made hand to hand.
- 奂sound partno entry yet奂 huàn for the sound.
Mnemonic
A hand 扌 with 奂 for the sound: something passing from one hand to another. It is the verb for any swap — 换钱 to change money, 换车 to change buses or trains, 换衣服 to get changed, 换一个 to have a different one. Distinguish 改, which is to alter a thing itself rather than swap it for another.
A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.