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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
- —郊外化suburbanization
- —量化子quantifier
- —唇音化labialization
- —口蓋化palatalization
- —内製化insourcing
- —耐震化earthquake proofing
- —小説化novelization; turning into a novel
- —舞台化theatrical adaptation; stage adaptation; adapting for the theatre (theater)
- —話題化topicalization
- —半化石subfossil
- —準化石subfossil
- —進化形evolved form; developed form
- —化学種chemical species
- —男体化female-to-male gender swap (in fan art and fan fiction)
- —黒字化moving into the black; becoming profitable
- —目的化becoming the objective; setting as a goal
- —矮小化reduction (in size); shrinking; minimization; trivializing (an issue); making light of; playing down
- —省人化manpower reduction; personnel saving
- —開化丼bowl of rice topped with beef (or pork) and egg
- —ＯＡ化office automation