へんぼう

Japanese

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) へんぼー [hèńbóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [hẽ̞mbo̞ː]

Noun

へんぼう • (henbō) 

1. 辺防: border defense
2. 変貌: transfiguration of one's appearance
3. 偏旁, 偏傍: for certain kanji characters, the 偏 (hen, “left-side radical”) and the 旁 (tsukuri, “the right-side main portion of the character”)