| 改判 | gǎi pàn | to commute (a death sentence) |
| 改则 | Gǎi zé | Gerze county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Sger rtse rdzong |
| 改则县 | Gǎi zé xiàn | Gerze county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Sger rtse rdzong |
| 改名 | gǎi míng | to change ones name |
| 改善通讯 | gǎi shàn tōng xùn | to improve communications |
| 改善关系 | gǎi shàn guān xi | to improve relations |
| 改嘴 | gǎi zuǐ | to deny; to go back on one's word |
| 改弦易辙 | gǎi xián yì zhé | change of string, move out of rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction; to dance to a different tune |
| 改恶向善 | gǎi è xiàng shàn | turn away from evil and follow virtue |
| 改成 | gǎi chéng | to convert; to turn into (sth else); to adapt (a story to another medium) |
| 改掉 | gǎi diào | to drop a bad habit |
| 改日 | gǎi rì | another day; some other day |
| 改朝 | gǎi cháo | change of dynasties |
| 改期 | gǎi qī | to reschedule; to rearrange (e.g. a meeting); to postpone |
| 改业 | gǎi yè | to change profession or business |
| 改样 | gǎi yàng | to change completely |
| 改为 | gǎi wéi | to change into |
| 改称 | gǎi chēng | to change a name; to rename |
| 改稿 | gǎi gǎo | to revise a manuscript |
| 改行 | gǎi háng | to change profession |
| 改订伊犁条约 | gǎi dìng Yī lí tiáo yuē | Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed to hand back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights |
| 改译 | gǎi yì | to correct (improve) a translation |
| 改变信仰者 | gǎi biàn xìn yǎng zhě | a convert |
| 改变形像 | gǎi biàn xíng xiàng | transfiguration |
| 改过自新 | gǎi guò zì xīn | to reform and start afresh (idiom); to turn over a new leaf |
| 改锥 | gǎi zhuī | screwdriver; CL:把 |
| 改错 | gǎi cuò | to correct an error |
| 改革家 | gǎi gé jiā | reformer |
| 改革派 | gǎi gé pài | the reformist party |
| 改革者 | gǎi gé zhě | reformer |
| 改革进程 | gǎi gé jìn chéng | reform process |
| 改革开放 | gǎi gé kāi fàng | to reform and open to the outside world; refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980 |
| 政治改革 | zhèng zhì gǎi gé | political reform |
| 整改 | zhěng gǎi | to reform; to rectify and improve |
| 文字改革 | wén zì gǎi gé | reform of the writing system |
| 朝令夕改 | zhāo lìng xī gǎi | to make frequent or unpredictable changes in policy (idiom) |
| 朝闻夕改 | zhāo wén xī gǎi | lit. heard in the morning and changed by the evening; to correct an error very quickly (idiom) |
| 朝过夕改 | zhāo guò xī gǎi | to correct in the evening a fault of the morning (idiom); to quickly amend one's ways |
| 末底改 | Mò dǐ gǎi | Mordechai (name) |
| 榛狉未改 | zhēn pī wèi gǎi | primitive state |
| 江山易改本性难移 | jiāng shān yì gǎi běn xìng nán yí | rivers and mountains are easy to change, man's character much harder |
| 江山易改禀性难移 | jiāng shān yì gǎi bǐng xìng nán yí | rivers and mountains are easy to change, man's character much harder |
江山易改，
本性难移 | jiāng shān yì gǎi ,
běn xìng nán yí | The rivers and mountains may change, but not one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.; Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23) |
| 没大改变 | méi dà gǎi biàn | not significantly changed |
| 狗改不了吃屎 | gǒu gǎi bù liǎo chī shǐ | a dog can't stop himself from eating shit; bad habits are hard to change |
| 痛改前非 | tòng gǎi qián fēi | completely correcting one's former misdeeds (idiom); to repent past mistakes and turn over a new leaf; a reformed character |
| 发改委 | fā gǎi wěi | abbr. for 国家发展和改革委员会, PRC National development and reform commission (from 2003) |
| 知过改过 | zhī guò gǎi guò | to acknowledge one’s faults and correct them (idiom) |
| 积习难改 | jī xí nán gǎi | old habits are hard to change (idiom); It is hard to throw off ingrained habits. |
| 窜改 | cuàn gǎi | to alter; to modify; to change; to tamper |
