千变万化

qiān biàn wàn huà

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Traditional: 千變萬化

Meaning · English

Changing constantly and in countless ways. Used for weather, markets, situations or patterns that never stay the same.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Biến đổi không ngừng, muôn hình muôn vẻ. Dùng cho thời tiết, thị trường, tình hình hay những thứ luôn thay đổi khó lường.

Literally: a thousand changes, ten thousand transformations

Register: neutral

Examples

山上的天气千变万化。Shān shàng de tiānqì qiān biàn wàn huà.The weather up in the mountains is forever changing.

Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check

Sources & notes

Hán-Việt bridge batch 061 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): etymology of “thiên biến vạn hoá” = 千變萬化 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “thiên biến vạn hoá” (thien-bien-van-hoa). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.

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Common questions

What does “千变万化” mean?

Changing constantly and in countless ways. Used for weather, markets, situations or patterns that never stay the same. Literally: a thousand changes, ten thousand transformations

Is “千变万化” formal or informal?

千变万化 is generally neutral.

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