化け
Meanings
Noun
No-adjective
1. transforming oneself; taking on another form; disguising oneself
2. artificial fly (for fishing)
Other spellings
ばけ
Kanji used
Pitch accent
ばけ
Used in vocabulary
文字化け
corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text; garbled text
Noun
七化け
dance in which the performer quickly changes his clothes seven times; the seven disguises of ninja
Noun
化け札
card that can be counted as more than one type of card for scoring combinations (e.g. the sake cup card or the November suit)
Noun