Memory phrase for the Kanji: 変
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Kanji-Trainer
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Meaning
| strange, change, alter
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Pronunciation |
HEN
kaeru |
Explanation |
Top: var. of red 赤 (When clay/earth 土 is burned in fire 灬, the pottery gets: red), bottom: upturned foot 夂 (also sitting cross-legged) |
Mnemonic
| The red upturned foot looks strange. This has to be changed.
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Radicals
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赤
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red | When earth 土 (clay) is burned 灬, the pottery becomes red. |
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夂
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crossed legs | This radical is understood as sitting with crossed legs or upturned foot. |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 大変 |
たいへん |
very, greatly, immense, enormous |
| 変 |
へん |
odd, queer, change, disturbance |
| 変える |
かえる |
to change (actively), to alter, to vary |
| 変わる |
かわる |
to change (by itself), to be transformed, to be revised, to be different |
| 変化 |
へんか |
change, variation, inflection |
| 一変 |
いっぺん |
complete change, about-face |
| 変動 |
へんどう |
change, fluctuation |
| 変更 |
へんこう |
change, modification, alteration |
| 変遷 |
へんせん |
change, transition, vicissitudes |
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