変

Variant of 變. Simplified from 變 (䜌 → 亦)

変 (Kangxi radical 35, 夊+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜金竹水 (YCHE), composition ⿱亦夂)

• 𭱝

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 245, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5703
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 869, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5909

• The correct form of the simplified character of 變 is 变 (with 又 at the bottom) which is encoded separately. This character (with 夂 at the bottom) may be encountered in calligraphic writing.

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 變)

1. change
2. strange; odd
3. (music) used to denote flat accidentals

• Go-on: へん (hen, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: へん (hen, Jōyō)
• Kun: かえる (kaeru, 変える, Jōyō)^{←かへる (kaferu, 変へる, historical)}、かわる (kawaru, 変わる, Jōyō)^{←かはる (kafaru, 変はる, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 變 (MC pjenH).

• (Tokyo) へん [héꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [hẽ̞ɴ]

変(へん) • (hen) -na (adnominal 変(へん)な (hen na), adverbial 変(へん)に (hen ni))

1. strange

   変(へん)な人(ひと)

   hen na hito

   a strange person

   変(へん)なことにこだわる

   hen na koto ni kodawaru

   to become fixated on the strangest things

変(へん) • (hen) 

1. change
2. (music) flat (semitone down)

   Antonym: 嬰(えい) (ei)

3. sudden change, turn (in a patient's condition)
   • 1914, 夏目漱石 [Natsume Sōseki], chapter 18, in こゝろ [Kokoro], 中 両親と私 [My Parents and I]:

     私(わたくし)は今(いま)にも変(へん)がありそうな病(びょう)室(しつ)を退(しりぞ)いてまた先(せん)生(せい)の手(て)紙(がみ)を読(よ)もうとした。

     Watakushi wa imanimo hen ga ari-sō na byōshitsu o shirizoite mata sensei no tegami o yomō to shita.

     I retreated from the sickroom where any moment some sudden change could occur and attempted again to read Sensei's letter.

変 (eum 변 (byeon))

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