Japanese symbol for “anomaly”
変則
へんそく
Romaji: hensoku
irregularity; anomaly
In Japanese, anomaly is 変則, read へんそく (hensoku).
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Meanings
- adj-na, adj-no, n irregularity; anomaly
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “anomaly”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 変調 | へんちょう henchou | irregularity; abnormality; anomaly |
| アノマリー | アノマリー anomarii | anomaly |
| 不正常 | ふせいじょう fuseijou | anomaly |
| 近点離角 | きんてんりかく kintenrikaku | anomaly |
| 近点角 | きんてんかく kintenkaku | anomaly; angular distance of a planet from its perihelion as seen from the sun |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大変 | たいへん taihen | very; greatly; terribly |
| 変更 | へんこう henkou | change; modification; alteration |
| 変化 | へんか henka | change; variation; alteration |
| 変わる | かわる kawaru | to change; to be transformed; to be altered |
| 変動 | へんどう hendou | change; fluctuation |
| 変身 | へんしん henshin | metamorphosis; disguise; transformation |
| 規則 | きそく kisoku | rule; regulation |
| 原則 | げんそく gensoku | principle; general rule |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.