Illustration: A longtime resident stands inside a former neighborhood warehouse that has become a bright community café. They hold an old photograph showing the same interior filled with dusty crates, bare concrete, and a closed loading door.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

変へん貌ぼう

henbou

to undergo a major change

Example sentences

  1. 日本にっぽんは工業化こうぎょうかの結果急激けっかきゅうげきな変貌へんぼうを遂とげた。

    Japan has undergone a drastic change as a result of industrialization.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 新あたらしいニーズに合あった街まちへと変貌へんぼうしつつある。

    The district along the street is changing to meet new needs.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 高山たかやまダムは1969年ねんに完成かんせいし、五月川さつきがわの渓谷けいこくは月ヶ瀬湖つきがせこに変貌へんぼうした。

    Takayama Dam was completed in 1969, and the Satsuki River Valley was replaced by Lake Tsukigase.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 変貌

  • 変unusual; changeOnヘンKunかわる・かわり・かえる
  • 貌form; appearanceOnボウ・バクKunかたち・かたどる

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store