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>>658082 ??
?: Base meanings: unusual, change, strange. ?: Base meanings: attitude, condition, appearance, figure, voice (of verbs)
??: Strange/unusual attitude.
The way you'll see ?? used most frequently is as an accusation--"Hentai!" or, "You pervert!"
A more common word for transformation in Japanese is ??: henshin. Granted, it's not quite the same: henshin is going to refer primarily to physical transformation, where as hentai could refer to a transformation of attitude or condition. Primarily, however, hentai refers to perversion.
And if you look at it, perversion in English doesn't necessarily refer to the sexually base--it's just come to refer to that primarily over the centuries.
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