變文

Chinese

		to change; to become different; to transform to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion	language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
trad. (變文)		變	文
simp. (变文)		变	文

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biànwén

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˋ ㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin³ man⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biànwén
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˋ ㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biànwún
    • Wade–Giles: pien⁴-wên²
    • Yale: byàn-wén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biannwen
    • Palladius: бяньвэнь (bjanʹvɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵¹ wən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bin³ man⁴
    • Yale: bin màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin³ man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin³ men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn³³ mɐn²¹/

Noun

變文

1. transformation text (literary form)

   20世紀伊始，人們在敦煌藏經洞的經卷中發現了一種鮮為人知的寫本——變文，這種韻白交替的形式當年是以邊講邊唱的方式表現的。 [MSC, trad.]
   20世纪伊始，人们在敦煌藏经洞的经卷中发现了一种鲜为人知的写本——变文，这种韵白交替的形式当年是以边讲边唱的方式表现的。 [MSC, simp.]

   20 shìjì yīshǐ, rénmen zài dūnhuáng cángjīngdòng de jīngjuǎn zhōng fāxiàn le yīzhǒng xiānwèirénzhī de xiěběn — biànwén, zhè zhǒng yùnbái jiāotì de xíngshì dāngnián shì yǐ biān jiǎng biān chàng de fāngshì biǎoxiàn de. [Pinyin]

   Transformation texts were discovered at the turn of the 20^th century in the Dunhuang caves. This genre is in a verse-prose form, originally employed by Buddhist monks for liturgical purposes.