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化 kanji
change, take the form of, influence, enchant, delude, -ization
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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On readings
カケ
Kun readings
ばけるばかすふけるけする
Words with 化
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —硝化菌nitrifying bacteria
- —種分化speciation
- —化石種fossil species
- —地球化terraforming
- —孵化場hatchery
- —予算化budgeting
- —健全化restoration; return to health
- —右傾化conservative swing; drift to the right; rightward trend
- —硫化鉄iron sulfide; iron sulphide
- —化石水fossil water; paleowater; palaeowater
- —直音化depalatalization (e.g. dropping small kana in borrowing foreign words into Japanese); depalatalisation
- —厳罰化toughening the law; making the law stricter
- —角質化keratinization
- —刑罰化adding a penalty to a crime (e.g. fines, prison); penalizing a crime
- —結晶化crystallization
- —差別化differentiation
- —乾酪化caseation
- —具現化embodiment; realization; materialization
- —分化能cell potency; differentiation potency
- —帰化種naturalized species