"To evolve" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 演变 | yǎn biàn | to develop / to evolve |   |
| 演化 | yǎn huà | to evolve / evolution | |
| 嬗变 | shàn biàn | (literary) to evolve / to change / (physics) transmutation | |
| 衍变 | yǎn biàn | to develop / to evolve | |
| 嬗 |  shàn | (literary) to go through successive changes / to evolve | |
| 衍化 | yǎn huà | to evolve (of ideas, designs, constructions etc) / to develop and change | |
| 递嬗 | dì shàn | (literary) to go through successive changes / to evolve | |
