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変える

かえる

to change, to alter

Mnemonic

The same かえる sound as going home and a completely different kanji. That one carries your bags back the way they came; this one turns a thing into something else entirely: かえる.

Worth knowing

Careful: 帰る かえる is to return home. Same reading, different character.

Built from

change
A simplified form: one thing turning into another.

Also read かえる

to return, to go back

Words sharing these kanji

to change strange, funny terrible, serious, grave as usual, as before change, variation

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