- 変わる【かわる】 - to change, to be transformed, to be altered, to vary, to move to, to be different, to be uncommon, to be unusual 
- 大変【たいへん】 - very, greatly, terribly, awfully, immense, enormous, great, serious, grave, dreadful, terrible, difficult, hard, challenging, major incident, disaster 
- 変える【かえる】 - to change, to alter, to transform, to convert, to turn, to vary, to reform, to revise, to amend 
- 変化【へんか】 - change, variation, alteration, mutation, transition, transformation, transfiguration, metamorphosis, variety, diversity, inflection, declension, conjugation, sidestepping 
- 変更【へんこう】 - change, modification, alteration, revision, amendment 
- 相変わらず【あいかわらず】 - as usual, as always, as before, as ever, still 
- 変身【へんしん】 - metamorphosis, disguise, transformation, shapeshifting, morphing 
- 変化【へんげ】 - shapeshifting (of an animal or spirit), goblin, ghost, apparition, bugbear, incarnation, transformation 
- 変態【へんたい】 - transformation, abnormality, sexual perversion, pervert, metamorphosis, transformation, transition, modification 
- 変わり【かわり】 - change, alteration, difference, distinction, something wrong, abnormality, unusual event, accident, incident 
- 変人【へんじん】 - eccentric, crank, oddball 
- 生まれ変わる【うまれかわる】 - to be born again, to make a fresh start in life 
- 変装【へんそう】 - disguise, masquerade 
- 変動【へんどう】 - change, fluctuation 
- 変形【へんけい】 - transformation, variation, metamorphosis, modification, deformation, variety, deformity, monster 
- 不変【ふへん】 - eternal, everlasting, unchangeable, immutable, immovable, constant, permanent, indestructible, invariant 
- 変容【へんよう】 - change in appearance, transformation 
- 変換【へんかん】 - change, conversion, transformation, transformation 
- 急変【きゅうへん】 - sudden turn, sudden change, (suddenly occurring) accident, emergency 
- 変貌【へんぼう】 - transfiguration, transformation, change of appearance