Kana: へん

strange

Example sentence

変な音が聞こえます。

へんなおとがきこえます。

I hear a strange sound.

What 変 means

(へん) is a Japanese word meaning “strange”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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