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変化

へんか

change, variation

Mnemonic

Twelve months and not one of them left the room the way it found it. The same hen へん as 変, and a ka か more of it each time: へんか.

Worth knowing

The noun. 変わる かわる is the verb.

Built from

change
A simplified form: one thing turning into another.
change, transform
A person 亻 on the left and the same figure turned over on the right. One thing going and another arriving in its place.

Words sharing these kanji

to change, to alter to change strange, funny terrible, serious, grave as usual, as before strengthening

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