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改 kanji
reformation, change, modify, mend, renew, examine, inspect, search
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
カイ
Kun readings
あらためるあらたまる
Words with 改
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —機構改革reorganization; reorganisation; structural reform
- —改良主義reformism
- —改訂増補revised and enlarged (edition)
- —品種改良selective breeding
- —組織改革organizational change; organisational change; organizational reform
- —改修工事repair work
- —教育改革educational reform
- —車内改札inspection of tickets in the car (carriage)
- —待遇改善improvement of labor conditions (labour)
- —金融改革financial reform
- —銀行改革banking reform
- —契約更改contract renewal
- —構造改革structural reform; restructuring
- —司法改革judicial reform
- —内閣改造cabinet reshuffle; cabinet shake-up
- —民主改革democratic reform
- —大化改新Taika Reforms (645 CE)
- —創氏改名policy that forced Koreans under Japanese rule to adopt Japanese names (1939; abolished in 1945)
- —規制改革regulatory reform
- —増補改訂revising (and supplementing)