感かん化か

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感化する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	感かん化かする	感かん化かしない
Polite	感かん化かします	感かん化かしません
Past polite	感かん化かしました	感かん化かしませんでした
Past	感かん化かした	感かん化かしなかった
Te-form	感かん化かして	感かん化かしないで
Desire	感かん化かしたい	感かん化かしたくない
Potential	感かん化かできる	感かん化かできない
Passive	感かん化かされる	感かん化かされない
Causative	感かん化かさせる	感かん化かさせない
Causative passive	感かん化かさせられる	感かん化かさせられない
Volitional	感かん化かしよう
Polite volitional	感かん化かしましょう
Imperative	感かん化かしろ	感かん化かするな
Conditional	感かん化かすれば	感かん化かしなければ
Tara conditional	感かん化かしたら	感かん化かしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

influence; inspiration

Refers to a positive, often moral or emotional influence that changes someone's thinking or behavior. Commonly used with する to mean 'to influence' or 'to inspire'.

彼かれの誠せい実じつな生いき方かたに感かん化かされて、私わたしもボランティアを始はじめた。
Influenced by his sincere way of life, I also started volunteering.
良よい本ほんは若わか者ものを感かん化かする力ちからがある。
Good books have the power to inspire young people.

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Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉を感かん化かするto influence/inspire someone (morally or emotionally)
その先せん生せいは多おおくの生せい徒とを感かん化かした。
That teacher inspired many of his students.
〈人ひと〉に感かん化かされるto be influenced/inspired by someone
彼かれは師し匠しょうに感かん化かされて画が家かになった。
He was inspired by his mentor and became a painter.
〈物もの〉に感かん化かされるto be influenced by something (a book, environment, etc.)
彼かの女じょはその本ほんに感かん化かされてボランティアを始はじめた。
She was inspired by that book and started volunteering.
良よい感かん化かを与あたえるto have a good influence on someone
彼かれの生いき方かたは若わか者ものに良よい感かん化かを与あたえている。
His way of life has a positive influence on young people.

Kanji

感emotion, feeling, sensation
化change, take the form of, influence

Related words

影えい響きょうN3
影響 is a neutral term covering any kind of effect, positive or negative, while 感化 refers specifically to a positive moral or emotional influence that shapes someone's character.
教きょう化か
教化 implies deliberate moral instruction or edification, whereas 感化 suggests influence that happens naturally through contact or example rather than active teaching.
啓けい発はつ
啓発 focuses on awakening someone's awareness or knowledge, while 感化 focuses on changing someone's character or behavior through emotional influence.
洗せん脳のう
感化 refers to a gradual, often benign influence on someone's character, whereas 洗脳 implies deliberate, systematic manipulation.

Don't confuse with

感かん動どうN3
感動 means being emotionally moved by something, while 感化 means being influenced so that one's thinking or behavior actually changes.

Word family

悪あっ感かん化か
evil influence; bad influence; corrupting effect
感かん化か院いん
reformatory; reform school

Etymology

Used in Qing-era Chinese–English dictionaries for “influence,” 感化 was taken up by Japanese translators in the late Edo and Meiji periods for moral or personal influence.