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
- —ザ変名詞verb formed by adding "zuru" to a noun
- —変成男子a woman being reborn as a man (in order to qualify for Buddhahood)
- —日支事変Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
- —海面変化sea level change; eustatic change
- —甲申政変Gapsin Coup (failed reformist coup d'état in Korea; 1884); Kapsin Coup
- —変則軌道trajectory-shifting (e.g. missile)
- —組織変更entity conversion; change of company form
- —外置変形extraposition
- —和平演変peaceful overthrow of Chinese communism (alleged Western strategy)
- —契約変更alteration of contract; contract modification; contractual change
- —規則変化regular conjugation
- —可変容量variable capacity; variable capacitance
- —変ロ長調B flat major
- —変イ長調A flat major
- —変ホ短調E flat minor
- —変換候補conversion candidate (in an input method editor)
- —意識変容altered consciousness
- —確率変動system by which hitting a certain jackpot increases the probability of hitting the next jackpot (on prepaid card pachinko machines)
- —変則勤務irregular work (hours); shift work
- —互変異性tautomerism