Kanji1 / 11
転 kanji
revolve, turn around, change
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
テン
Kun readings
ころがるころげるころがすころぶまろぶうたたうつるくるめく
Variant forms
轉Words with 転
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —再転送re-transfer; re-transmit
- —回転灯flashing lights; revolving lights; lights used on the top of emergency vehicles
- —周転円epicycle
- —回転翼rotary wing (aircraft); rotor
- —転用者re-user
- —転向者convert (e.g. to a cause)
- —逆転写reverse transcription
- —公転面plane of revolution
- —転輪王Chakravartin; ideal universal ruler (in Indian religions)
- —回転数number of revolutions (i.e. as an engine speed); number of rotations; speed of revolution; speed of rotation
- —転換点turning point; tipping point; commutation point
- —転じてby the way; meanwhile; on the other hand; by extension
- —転移巣metastatic lesion
- —転落死falling to one's death; death from a fall
- —転写紙transfer paper
- —再逆転regaining the lead; turning the tables (again); second reversal
- —超回転super-rotation
- —転呼音sound shift (esp. in historical kana); new pronunciation
- —転勤族person who moves a lot for their job; family who moves a lot for the primary breadwinner's job
- —回転率turnover rate (merchandise, capital)