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Chinese symbol for “distortion”

畸变
jī biàn
Traditional: 畸變
distortion; aberration

The closest CC-CEDICT match for distortion is 畸变 (jī biàn), defined as: distortion; aberration.

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Characters and stroke order

畸 jī
odd, unusual; fraction, remainder
radical 102 ⽥ · 13 strokes
变 biàn
to change, to transform, to alter; rebel
radical 29 ⼜ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “distortion”

WordPinyinMeaning
失真shī zhēnto lack fidelity; (signal) distortion

Related words

Other words that share a character with 畸变.

WordPinyinMeaning
畸形jī xíngdeformed; malformed; lopsided; unbalanced
正畸zhèng jīorthodontics
致畸zhì jīproducing abnormality; leading to malformation; teratogenic
畸型jī xíngmalformation
畸胎jī tāia teratism; monster; severely deformed individual
改变 (改變)gǎi biànto change; to alter
变化 (變化)biàn huà(intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation
变成 (變成)biàn chéngto change into; to turn into

See also: Japanese symbol for “distortion”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.