U+5909 "変" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5909 "変" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji character primarily used in Japanese and occasionally in Chinese contexts, representing the concept of "change," "alteration," or "strangeness." It is a simplified variant of the traditional Chinese character "變," and in Japanese, it frequently appears in words such as "変化" (henka, meaning change) and "変人" (henjin, meaning eccentric person). This character is composed of the radical "夊" (to go slowly or to drag) and the phonetic component "亦" (also), though its modern meaning has evolved to emphasize transformation or abnormality. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it shares encoding space with characters from all three languages, reflecting its shared but regionally distinct usage. The character's strokes and structure are standardized for digital text, allowing it to be used in modern computing for representing this fundamental linguistic concept across East Asian writing systems.