变动 biàndòng to change
to change; to fluctuate; change; fluctuation
How to remember 变动: 变 change + 动 move = to change.
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How it is used
- Noun/verb for shifts in plans, positions, policy, or numbers: 人事变动 (rénshì biàndòng) - personnel changes, 价格变动 (jiàgé biàndòng) - price fluctuation.
- Formal/written register, typical of workplace and news contexts.
- Different from the everyday 变化 (biànhuà), general change (天气变化, weather change) - 变动 leans toward changes in institutional or structural matters, often implying something official got reshuffled.