Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hengeyokai

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hengeyokai
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A legendary Japanese animal with the ability to shapeshift into human form.

Example Sentences

"1985, David Cook, Oriental Adventures, TSR Inc., →ISBN Hengeyokai are intelligent, shape-changing animals. Several subraces exist, each a different type of animal. They are found throughout the Oriental world, usually on the fringes of human-settled lands."
"1998-01-28, Lee Gold, Re: B5 Filk: You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Us Sinclair, rec.music.filk If a hengeyokai fails to concentrate (or perhaps gets distracted -- due to being beaten, seeing a mouse, fatigue), the human form's ears may get pointed or a tail may appear."
"Hengeyokai transfer between forms almost instantly, though when in human form, they often retain some mark of characteristic of their true animal nature."
"2013-10-12, Jasin Zujovic, Hengeyokai level adjustment, rec.games.frp.dnd I've been watching Inuyasha yesterday (too bad that's a German dub and I can understand almost nothing) and that got me wanting to make myself a hengeyokai character... and then I remembered the level adjustment."

Etymology

From Japanese 変化妖怪.

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: 変化妖怪

Questions

What does hengeyokai mean?: A legendary Japanese animal with the ability to shapeshift into human form.
Where does hengeyokai come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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