This site will be taken down March 31st, 2026.

This was not an easy decision to make. For the last couple years, I have been struggling to find motivation for this site and to keep up with basic maintenance and security updates. With the rise of AI and more sophisticated tools, the usefulness of sites like this is questionable and traffic has nose-dived. I just don't have it in me to keep doing this. Thank you all for 10 years of support!

Zach

Readings

Kana: ヘン、か.わる、か.わり、か.える
Romaji: hen, ka.waru, ka.wari, ka.eru
Kana
Romaji

Meanings

unusual, change, strange

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  9
Radical Number:  8
Frequency:  238
Grade:  4
Skip Pattern:  2-2-7
Korean Reading:  byeon
Chinese Reading:  bian4
Unicode:  5909
JIS:  4A51

Indexes

Halpern Index: 2069
Nelson Index: 306
New Nelson Index: 1119
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 2j7.3
Four Corner Index: 0040.7
Guide to Remembering Index: 581
Gakken Index: 324
Japanese Names Index: 970
Daikanwanjiten Index: 5703
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 3.0302
Remembering the kanji Index: 1745
Kanji Way Index: 254
Kanji Flashcards Index: 443
Kodansha Compact Index: 401
Read Writing Kanji Third Index: 609
Kanji in Context Index: 222
1999 Kanji Learners Index: 1311
2013 Kanji Learners Index: 1782
French Remembering the Kanji Index: 1761
Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 1882
Essential Kanji Index: 191
Kodansha Kanji Index: 2569
Roo 2001 Kanji Index: 467
Read Writing the Kanji Index: 509
Tuttle Kanji Cards Index: 532

Words

(へん)
strange; odd; peculiar; weird; curious; queer; eccentric; funny; suspicious; fishy; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance; disaster; accident; flat
変化 (へんげ)
goblin; ghost; apparition; bugbear
変える (かえる)
to change; to alter; to transform; to convert; to turn; to vary; to reform; to revise; to amend
大変 (たいへん)
very; greatly; immense; enormous; great; serious; grave; dreadful; terrible; difficult; hard; major incident; disaster
改変 (かいへん)
change; innovation; transformation
変化 (へんか)
change; variation; alteration; mutation; transition; transformation; transfiguration; metamorphosis; variety; diversity; inflection; declension; conjugation; sidestepping
変わる (かわる)
to change; to be transformed; to be altered; to vary; to move to; to be different; to be uncommon; to be unusual
変換 (へんかん)
change; conversion; transformation; translation
事変 (じへん)
accident; disaster; incident; uprising; emergency
変異 (へんい)
variation; rogue (something)
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