| Subject | English | Japanese |
| gen. | n any of 22 simplified non-joyo kanji variants commonly used in print | 簡易慣用字体 |
| el., mech. | connector variant | バリアント |
| el., mech. | connector variant | コネクタバリアント |
| gen. | deletion variant | 欠失体 |
| gen. | n drunken elephant piece, used in some variants of shogi | 酔象 |
| gen. | new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease | 変異型クロイツフェルトヤコブ病 |
| gen. | n orthographical variants | 表記揺れ |
| gen. | n orthographical variants | 表記ゆれ |
| comp., MS | product variant | 商品バリエーション (A specific item that is grouped with related variants that together form a product. Variants usually vary from each other in one or more properties. For example, a medium-sized, green shirt with a stock-keeping unit (SKU) of 14678 is one product variant of the Shirt product; together size, color, and SKU form one variant. A product variant always includes a unique identifier, such as an SKU, and a price. Each product variant is based on the same product definition) |
| comp., MS | product variant | 製品バリアント (A configuration of a product master) |
| comp., MS | product variant property | 商品バリエーション プロパティ (A property that varies among product variants. For example the product variant medium-sized green shirt has two product variant properties: size and color) |
| comp., MS | theme variant | テーマ バリエーション (One of the variations of a theme that make up a theme family) |
| gen. | time-variant system | 時変システム |
| gen. | variant angina | 異型狭心症 |
| gen. | variant character | 異字 |
| gen. | n variant character | 異体字 e.g. 渕 as variant of 淵 |
| gen. | n variant characters | 異体文字 (usu. kanji or kana) |
| comp. | n variant concrete syntax | 変形具象構文 |
| comp., MS | variant configuration technology | バリアント コンフィギュレーション テクノロジ (A method of modeling product masters and searching for product variant configurations) |
| gen. | n variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease | 変異型クロイツフェルトヤコブ病 |
| comp., MS | Variant data type | バリアント データ型 (The default data type for variables that don't have type-declaration characters when a Deftype statement isn't in effect. A Variant can store numeric, string, date/time, Null, or Empty data) |
| gen. | n variant edition | 異本 |
| comp., MS | variant expression | バリアント型の式 (Any expression that can evaluate to numeric, string, or date data, as well as the special values Empty and Null) |
| gen. | n variant form of a character | 異体字 e.g. 渕 as variant of 淵 (esp. kanji) |
| gen. | n variant manuscript | 異本 |
| gen. | exp variant of "de arimasu" used by the prostitutes of the Yoshiwara red light district in the Edo period | でありんす |
| gen. | n variant of gobang | 聯珠 (game) |
| gen. | n variant of gobang | 連珠 (game) |
| comp. | n variant part | 可変部 (かへんぶ) |
| gen. | n variant pattern | 変異形 |
| gen. | n variant pattern | 変化形 |