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
- —一大転機significant turning point
- —運気好転turn (stroke) of good fortune; one's fortune turning for the better
- —逆転優勝come-from-behind victory
- —急転悪化suddenly turning for the worse; sudden deterioration
- —空転国会stalled session of the Diet (Japanese Parliament)
- —形勢逆転the situation reverses itself; the table is turned; the shoe is on the other foot
- —二転三転changing again and again; seesawing back and forth; being in a state of flux
- —路線転換policy change (reversal)
- —脇見運転looking aside while driving; taking one's eyes off the road ahead while driving
- —一発逆転turning things around with a home run; turning the tables with a single successful attack (move)
- —昼夜逆転one's days and nights being reversed
- —フル回転full operation
- —時間転移time warp
- —株式移転stock transfer; share transfer
- —移転支出transfer payment
- —租税転嫁shifting of tax; tax shifting
- —回転寿司conveyor belt sushi; sushi-go-round; sushi train; kaiten-zushi
- —転法輪堂Buddhist sermon hall
- —反転現像reversal development
- —運転時間attended time