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剧变

劇變
jùbiàn
noun HSK 7-9 #39,927

Measure Word

一场剧变 chǎng

Meanings

  1. 1 drastic change; upheaval
  2. 2 to change dramatically

Examples

HSK 4
十年之间，这座城市发生了剧变。
Shí nián zhījiān, zhè zuò chéngshì fāshēng le jùbiàn.
In ten years the city has changed beyond recognition.
HSK 5
技术进步让整个行业面临剧变。
Jìshù jìnbù ràng zhěnggè hángyè miànlín jùbiàn.
Technological progress has the whole industry facing upheaval.
HSK 7-9
疫情之后，人们的消费习惯出现了剧变。
Yìqíng zhīhòu, rénmen de xiāofèi xíguàn chūxiàn le jùbiàn.
After the pandemic there was an upheaval in how people spend.

Tips

usage
Learners meet 剧 first in 电视剧, a TV series, so the character reads as "drama". Here it carries its other sense, severe or acute, the one in 剧烈 and 加剧.
history
In history writing the word is fixed to one event: 东欧剧变, the standard Chinese name for the collapse of the Eastern European governments in 1989.

Stroke Order

剧 jù
变 biàn