I Love Kanji変 (hen)
変 (へん, hen) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “strange; odd”. It appears in JLPT N4 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- へん
- Romaji
- hen
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N4 (unofficial)
Meaning
- strange; odd; peculiar; weird; curious · な-adjective
- unexpected · な-adjective
- change · noun
- incident; disturbance; disaster; accident; emergency · noun
- flat · prefix noun
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 変
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | 変だ | へんだ henda |
| Present (polite) | 変です | へんです hendesu |
| Negative | 変じゃない | へんじゃない henjanai |
| Past | 変だった | へんだった hendatta |
| Negative past | 変じゃなかった | へんじゃなかった henjanakatta |
| Te-form | 変で | へんで hende |
| Before a noun | 変な | へんな henna |
| Adverb (~ni) | 変に | へんに henni |
Kanji in 変
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 変.
大変たいへんvery変えるかえるto change変わるかわるto change変化へんかchange変更へんこうchange相変わらずあいかわらずas usual一変いっぺんcomplete change変革へんかくchange変遷へんせんchange変動へんどうchange
Source: JMdict entry 1510640 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.