换 huàn

change

HSK 3 #824

DEFINITIONS

  • change
  • to exchange
  • to change (clothes etc)
  • to substitute
  • to switch
  • to convert (currency)

STROKES

WORDS

市场换技术 shì chǎng huàn jì shù market access in return for technology transfer (PRC policy since the 1980s which gives foreign companies access to China's domestic market in exchange for sharing their intellectual property, characterized by the US in the 2019 trade war as "forced technology transfer")
换来换 huàn lái huàn to repeatedly exchange
换个儿 huàn gè r to change places; to swap places
换刀 huàn dāo tool change (mechanics)
换向 huàn xiàng commutation (electricity)
换单 huàn dān bill of exchange (international trade)
换喻 huàn yù metonymy
换妻 huàn qī wife swapping
换帖 huàn tiě to exchange cards containing personal details (when taking an oath of fraternity)
换房旅游 huàn fáng lǚ yóu house-swap vacation
换挡杆 huàn dǎng gǎn gear lever
换新 huàn xīn to replace with sth new; to upgrade
换毛 huàn máo to molt (of birds); to change feathers
换热器 huàn rè qì heat exchanger
换置 huàn zhì to swap; to exchange; to transpose; to replace
换羽 huàn yǔ to molt; to change feathers
换而言之 huàn ér yán zhī in other words
换茬 huàn chá rotation of crops
换行 huàn háng to wrap (text); line feed (computing)
换证 huàn zhèng to renew a certificate (ID card etc); to leave an ID at the desk to gain entrance
改换门庭 gǎi huàn mén tíng to improve one's family's social status by moving up in the world; to switch one's allegiance to a new patron
改换门闾 gǎi huàn mén lǘ see 改換門庭|改换门庭[gai3 huan4 men2 ting2]
数模转换器 shù mó zhuǎn huàn qì digital-to-analog converter (DAC)
模数转换器 mó shù zhuǎn huàn qì analog-to-digital converter (ADC)
汰旧换新 tài jiù huàn xīn out with the old and in with the new (idiom)
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