Chinese symbol for “variant”
变体
biàn tǐ
Traditional: 變體
variant
The closest CC-CEDICT match for variant is 变体 (biàn tǐ), defined as: variant.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “variant”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 变种 (變種) | biàn zhǒng | (biology) a mutation; a variety; a variant; a variety |
| 异质体 (異質體) | yì zhì tǐ | variant |
| 变异株 (變異株) | biàn yì zhū | variant; variant strain (of virus) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 变体.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 改变 (改變) | gǎi biàn | to change; to alter |
| 变化 (變化) | biàn huà | (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation |
| 变成 (變成) | biàn chéng | to change into; to turn into |
| 变得 (變得) | biàn de | to become |
| 转变 (轉變) | zhuǎn biàn | to change; to transform |
| 变态 (變態) | biàn tài | to metamorphose (biology); abnormal |
| 媒体 (媒體) | méi tǐ | media, esp. news media |
| 身体 (身體) | shēn tǐ | the body; one's health |
See also: Japanese symbol for “variant”.
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.