変 means “change, strange”

かわる · kawaru

Also: unusual

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

かわる, かわり, かえる

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

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The story

Slow feet (夂) on the same road as ever, and also (亦) something different: change. 変わる is to change, 変な is strange, and 大変, once "a great upheaval," is the everyday word for tough or serious.

Used in 変わる (kawaru, to change), 大変 (taihen, tough/serious), and 変な (hen na, strange)

More from Time & Change

• 過 pass
• 末 end
• 未 not yet
• 更 renew
• 刻 carve
• 暮 live
• 昔 long ago
• 晩 evening
• 化 transform
• 成 become
• 期 period
• 続 continue

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