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
- —運転停止suspension of operations
- —円転滑脱suave; tactful; smooth; versatile; adaptable
- —回転運動gyration
- —技術移転technology transfer
- —急転直下suddenly and precipitately; take a sudden turn
- —経営転換management reorganization; management reorganisation
- —時間反転time reversal
- —自転車屋bicycle shop; bicycle dealer
- —責任転嫁shifting the responsibility (for something) on to (someone); passing the buck
- —転写捺染transfer print
- —転送電話(telephone) call forwarding; call diversion
- —転置行列transposed matrix; transpose
- —無断転載unauthorized reproduction; unauthorised reproduction; unauthorized copying; unauthorised copying
- —有為転変mutability (of worldly affairs); fleeting shifts and changes (of human life)
- —主客転倒reversing the order of (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; the tables being turned; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; mistaking the means for the end
- —本末転倒putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the means for the end; getting one's priorities backwards
- —七転八倒tossing oneself about in great pain; writhing in agony
- —回転競技slalom
- —配置転換reshuffling; job rotation
- —回転木馬merry-go-round; carousel