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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
- —初期化部initialization section
- —状態変化phase change; state change; transformation
- —信号劣化signal degradation
- —日本語化Japanese localization
- —品質劣化quality degradation
- —劣化故障degradation failure
- —文化摩擦cultural friction
- —民衆文化popular culture
- —上位文化high culture
- —基層文化fundamental culture (concept proposed by German folklorist Hans Naumann); deep culture
- —表層文化culture of a higher order (as opposed to fundamental culture)
- —オヤジ化becoming (like) an old man (in one's manner); turning into an old geezer
- —二極分化polarisation
- —異化効果alienation effect; Verfremdungseffekt
- —硝化細菌nitrifying bacteria
- —消費文化consumer culture
- —収斂進化convergent evolution
- —退化器官vestigial organ
- —消化酵素digestive enzyme
- —酸化酵素oxidase