へん
Meanings
Adjective (な)
Noun
1. strange; odd; peculiar; weird; curious; queer; eccentric; funny; suspicious; fishy
2. unexpected
3. change
4. incident; disturbance; disaster; accident
Noun
Music
5. flat
Kanji used
change
Pitch accent
Top 600
Used in vocabulary (119 in total)
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
transformation; abnormality; sexual perversion; pervert; metamorphosis; transformation
change; modification; alteration; revision; amendment
unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident
disguise; masquerade
transformation; variation; metamorphosis; modification; deformation; variety
eccentric; crank; oddball
change; alteration; modification
alteration (of character or essence); change in quality; transformation; deterioration; degeneration; transmutation
change; fluctuation
variation; rogue (something)
change of color; change of colour; fading; discoloration; discolouration
to change into; to be transformed; to be transfigured; to transform; to alter; to convert
sudden change; complete change
sudden turn; sudden change; (suddenly occurring) accident; emergency
change in appearance; transformation
eternal; everlasting; unchangeable; invariant
mutant strain; mutated variant; mutant species
political disturbance; political change; change of government; political upheaval; overthrowing of a government; coup d'état
change of tone; variation (music); irregularity; modulation (in radio)
sudden change; upheaval
unnatural death; accidental death; violent death
accident; disaster; incident; uprising; emergency
unusual form; different shape; variant (e.g. kanji, kana)
mutant; variant
accident; emergency; calamity
mutation; change; transition
variable; changeable; convertible; controllable
irregularity; anomaly
strange; weird; odd; strange thing; strange person
change of mind; inconstancy; apostasy
variant; variation; variety; (taxonomical) variety
something unusual; something odd; something out of the ordinary
lesion; pathological change
Honnōji Incident (forced suicide of daimyo Oda Nobunaga by his samurai general Akechi Mitsuhide; June 21, 1582)
assumed name; alias
denaturation; degeneration
betrayal; defection; treachery; apostasy
appropriate (urgent) response; expediency
insane; mad; crazy; light in the head
stochastic variable; random variable
changing cell phone models
catastrophe; assassination; calamity; disaster
crazy; disturbed; mad
(playing a) variation
strange; weird; odd; strange thing; strange person
Hamaguri Rebellion (1864); Kinmon incident
shifting gears; changing gears
curiously; strangely
changing one's (public) persona; changing one's (public) image
revise (rules)
change of position; displacement
picture of Hell
eccentric person
catastrophe; assassination; calamity; disaster
resourcefulness; adaptability
person who has met an unnatural death; person accidentally killed
sudden change; complete change
irregularity; irregular conjugation; translative
natural calamity
sudden change; upheaval
change of opinion
transformation (of a current)
adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing it by ear
disturbance; uprising; war
change; alteration
Hamaguri Gomon incident (1864 clash between pro and anti-shogunate forces)
strange; weird; queer
note a semitone below the fourth degree of the Chinese and Japanese pentatonic scale
change of times
military disturbance
E♭ (musical note)
irregular conjugation of the verb "kuru"
variation; variant pattern
domain; range
transfiguration; transformation; change of appearance
irregular conjugation of verbs ending in "nu" (in written Japanese)
irregular conjugation of a limited number of verbs ending in "ru" (in written Japanese)
plasmodium (form within the life cycle of myxomycete slime molds)
second change; second calamity
Ōtenmon conspiracy; political incident in 866 CE centered around the destruction by fire of the main gate of the imperial palace
slight change
Genkō Incident (1331-1333); Genkō War
D♭ (musical note)
irregular conjugation of the verb "kuru"
irregular conjugation of s-stem verbs; conjugation of the verb "suru"
irregular conjugation of z-stem verbs; conjugation of verbs ending in "zu" or "zuru"
G♭ (musical note)
A♭ (musical note)
irregular conjugation of s-stem verbs; conjugation of the verb "suru"
conversion; converted character
taking a turn; developing into
Jōkyū uprising (1221 CE); Jōkyū War
the world is a scene of constant changes; (lit.) a mulberry field changes into a blue sea
the world is a scene of constant changes; (lit.) a mulberry field changes into a blue sea
unusual event; change (for the worse); accident
Examples (65 in total)
That's strange.
You're weird.
This is strange.