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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
变性
to denature
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to denature
02
denaturation
03
to have a sex change
04
transsexual
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 变性 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 变性 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
A Christian transgendered person I know said: "God has better things to do than to make up rules on who can use which bathroom."
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 变性.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 变性.
Directly before
- 基督教变性1
Directly after
- 变性者2
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 变性
What does 变性 mean in Chinese?
变性 (biànxìng) means to denature.
How do you pronounce 变性?
变性 is pronounced biànxìng.
Is 变性 an HSK word?
变性 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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