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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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カケ
Kun readings
ばけるばかすふけるけする
Words with 化
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —対象化objectification
- —硬化性sclerotic
- —硫酸化sulfation; sulphation
- —硝化綿cellulose nitrate
- —石灰化calcification
- —意識化becoming aware (of); becoming conscious (of); realization; conscientization; (formation of) critical consciousness
- —実写化live-action adaptation (of a manga, animated film, etc.)
- —国産化shift to domestic production; import substitution
- —非核化denuclearization; denuclearisation
- —晩産化increase in the average age of childbirth
- —晩婚化increase in the average age of marriage
- —均質化homogenization; homogenisation
- —未婚化tendency to not get married; declining marriage rate
- —差異化differentiation
- —女体化male-to-female gender swap (in fan art and fan fiction)
- —等生化normalization; offering people with disabilities the same conditions as other people
- —脳軟化encephalomalacia; brain softening
- —熱化学thermochemistry
- —淡水化desalination; desalinization; desalting
- —米国化Americanization