Kanji1 / 9
変 kanji
unusual, change, strange
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
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On readings
ヘン
Kun readings
かわるかわりかえる
Variant forms
變Words with 変
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —緯度変化latitude variation
- —可逆変化reversible change
- —芽条変異bud mutation; bud sport
- —海面変動sea level change
- —変換ミスselecting the wrong kanji (when typing); kanji typo; misconversion
- —変性疾患degenerative disease
- —結構大変quite a chore; not that easy; fairly difficult
- —行動変容behavior modification
- —天災地変natural disaster
- —条件変数conditional variable
- —意識変革radical change in mentality; radically changing one's way of thinking; radical change in consciousness
- —永久不変permanence; forever unchanging
- —応変能力ability to take proper steps to meet the situation; ability to adapt oneself to (the requirement of) the moment
- —恒久不変permanent and immutable
- —突如異変sudden and dramatic event (incident); sudden and strange phenomenon
- —変幻出没being protean and elusive; appear and disappear like a phantom
- —変身願望obsession with changing one's appearance; desire to change
- —変通自在freely adaptable, very flexible, nimble in adaptation
- —路線変更change in a bus route; change in policy; policy change (reversal)
- —禁門の変Hamaguri Rebellion (1864); Kinmon incident