改

Meaning

改 centers on making something different for the better: reforming, changing, modifying, mending, or renewing. The examine/inspect/search meanings are natural extensions of looking closely to identify what needs to change.

• 改善かいぜん
  N3

  betterment; improvement

• 改正かいせい
  N2

  revision; amendment; alteration

• 改めてあらためて
  N2

  another time; again; over again; once again; anew

• 改革かいかく
  N2

  reform; reformation; reorganization

• 改造かいぞう
  N2

  remodeling; remodelling; reconstruction; conversion; alteration; renovation; modification; reshuffling (e.g. a cabinet); reorganization; restructuring

• 改良かいりょう
  N2

  improvement; reform

• 改修かいしゅう
  N1

  repair; improvement

• 改めるあらためる
  N2

  to change; to alter; to revise; to replace

• 改札かいさつ
  N3

  examination of tickets

• 改定かいてい
  N1

  revision (of a rule, price, etc.); alteration; change

• 改装かいそう
  N1

  remodelling; remodeling; reorganization; reorganisation

• 改名かいめい

  name change

• 改訂かいてい
  N1

  revision (of text); alteration; change

• 改ざんかいざん

  alteration; falsification; faking

• 改憲かいけん

  constitutional change; revising the constitution

• 改築かいちく
  N2

  structural alteration (of a building); reconstruction; rebuilding; remodelling; remodeling

• 改宗かいしゅう

  religious conversion

• 改編かいへん

  reorganization; reorganisation

• 改選かいせん

  election (for a seat or position at the end of a term)

• 改まるあらたまる
  N1

  to be renewed; to change

• 改組かいそ

  reorganization; reorganisation; reshuffle

• 更改こうかい

  renewal; extension; revision

• 改新かいしん

  reformation

• 農地改革のうちかいかく

  agrarian reform

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