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
- —転嫁Popularimputation; shifting (blame, responsibility, etc.); passing the buck; second marriage; remarriage
- —転機Popularturning point
- —転向Popularconversion; shift; about-face; switch
- —転出Popularmoving out (to); moving to a different place; transfer (to a new post); being transferred
- —転職Popularchange of job; change of occupation; career change
- —転身Popularchanging (job, career, lifestyle, social position, beliefs, etc.)
- —転送Populartransfer (of a call, patient, etc.); forwarding (a letter, email, etc.); redirection; transfer (of data); transmission
- —転売Popularresale
- —転覆Popularoverturning; capsizing; overthrow (e.g. of a government)
- —転用Populardiversion; putting something to another use
- —反転Popularrolling over; turning over; turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); inversion; flipping; producing a positive from a negative; producing a negative from a positive; circle inversion; plane inversion
- —転倒Popularfall; falling down; tumbling; toppling (over); inversion; reversal; turning upside-down; getting upset; losing one's presence of mind
- —転移Popularmoving (location, with the times, etc.); change; transition; metastasis; spread; transition (e.g. phase transition); transfer (of learning); transference (in psychoanalysis)
- —転戦Popularmoving from one battlefield to another; fighting on successive fronts; fighting in various battles
- —運転士Popular(professional) driver (of a taxi, train, etc.); motorman; mate (on a ship); officer
- —試運転Populartrial run; test run
- —不退転Populardetermination; conviction
- —大回転Populargiant slalom; big rotation
- —運転中Popularwhile driving; currently driving; in operation; under way; on stream
- —飲酒運転Populardrunk driving; drink-driving; driving while intoxicated; drinking and driving; driving under the influence (of alcohol)