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Change Unusual Alteration Transition Incident Apple Walking Legs

Kanji
Onyomi ヘン
Kunyomi か.わる、か.わり、か.える
English unusual, change, strange
Examples 変化(へんか): (1) change; variation; alteration; mutation; transition; transformation; transfiguration; metamorphosis (2) variety; diversity (3) inflection; declension; conjugation (4) sidestepping (sumo)
大変(たいへん): (1) very; greatly (2) immense; enormous; great (3) serious; grave; dreadful; terrible (4) difficult; hard (5) major incident; disaster
変わる(かわる): (1) to change; to be transformed; to be altered; to vary (2) to move to (3) to be different; to be uncommon; to be unusual
変更(へんこう): change; modification; alteration; revision; amendment
変動(へんどう): change; fluctuation
相変わらず(あいかわらず): as ever; as usual; the same
変(へん): (1) strange; odd; peculiar; weird; curious; queer; eccentric; funny; suspicious; fishy (2) unexpected (3) change (4) incident; disturbance; disaster; accident (5) flat (music)
変革(へんかく): (1) change; reform; revolution; upheaval (2) Reformation
一変(いっぺん): complete change; about-face
変遷(へんせん): change; transition; vicissitudes
変える(かえる): to change; to alter; to vary; to convert; to revise; to amend; to transform
JLPT Level 3
Jouyou Grade 4
Frequency 238
Components 亦: also; again
夂: winter radical (no. 34)
Number of Strokes 9
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 149
Radical Strokes 7
Radical Reading こと・げん・ごんべん・ことば
Traditional Form
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword unusual
Koohii Story 1 It´s quite unusual and abnormal to see an apple with walking legs running away from the person who wants to eat it!
Koohii Story 2 Imagine an apple on walking legs on stage singing "It´s not unusual to be loved by anyone" (Tom Jones). Keyword can be confused with uncommon (#1797).

Tags: jlpt.n3, grade4, kanjifreq1-250

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