變 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. (自動詞) かわる。
  2. (他動詞) かえる。
  3. わざわい。事件。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「攴」+音符「䜌」。「あらためる」「かえる」を意味する漢語{變}を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

change, strange

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ヘン
Kun (native)
  • か(わる)
  • か(える)
Other languages
  • 拼音bian4
  • 한글byeon
  • Hán-ViệtBiến
  • Hán-ViệtBiện

Basics

Strokes
23 strokes
Radical
言(げん)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+8B8A

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱䜌攵

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-19-4
Four Corner
2240.8
Spahn–Hadamitzky
2j7.3
Nelson
2063