Radical 又

8 strokes

變

as well 亦 (581a) + right hand 又 (52) = transform 变

变成 (259) biànchéng change into

改变 (359) gǎibiàn transformation

变化 (391) biànhuà transformation

(At the wizard contest) Before starting, they had to touch wands as well as shake hands. But because they had left their wands activated they transformed one another into slugs. / The two dwarf stage-hands carried them off on a bench (to the detransforming clinic).

When this appears at the top of other characters, the central two lines are truncated into short vertical lines (as in the following character).