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
- —運転免許Populardriver's license; driver's licence; driving licence
- —気分転換Popularchange of pace; change of mood; (mental) break (e.g. going for a walk); refreshment
- —逆転勝ちPopularwinning after defeat seems certain; coming from behind to win
- —転change in pronunciation or meaning of a word; sound change; word with an altered pronunciation or meaning; turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)
- —暗転(theatrical) blackout; taking a (sudden) turn for the worse; rapid deterioration
- —一転one turn; spinning around; complete change; reversal; (an) about-face; sudden transformation
- —栄転promotion
- —円転orotund; smooth circular motion; spherical; rolling smoothly; (with) smooth circular motion
- —機転quick-wittedness; tact
- —休転not running (elevator)
- —公転revolution (of a celestial body around another)
- —再転changing directions; turning around
- —転業change of occupation
- —転載reprinting; reproduction
- —転写transcription (of a text, DNA, RNA, etc.); copying; transfer (printing); transcription; transliteration
- —転借subtenancy; sublease
- —転生transmigration; reincarnation; metempsychosis
- —転調modulation; change of key
- —転入moving into (a city, etc.); transfer (to a new school)
- —転変mutation; change; vicissitude