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
- —転訛corruption; bastardisation
- —転属changing assignments
- —転補changing (governmental) posts
- —転貸sublease; sublet
- —転轍switching or shunting (of a rail car)
- —転籍transfer of permanent domicile (as recorded in the family register); transfer of school register
- —退転idling in one's training; backsliding; retrogression (to a lower level of religious practice); withdrawal (from a place due to financial ruin or loss of position)
- —陽転positive reaction (to medical test)
- —流転continual change; vicissitudes; transmigration; metempsychosis
- —宛転eloquent; fluent; smooth-spoken; sonorous; facile; silver-tongued; (of eyebrows) shapely
- —前転forward somersault; forward roll
- —側転cartwheel
- —転部changing post (department, club, etc.)
- —転石rolling stone; boulder
- —転折changing direction (esp. of a ship); turning; brush movement where a horizontal line turns sharply downwards (in calligraphy)
- —転筋cramp in the calf
- —転院transfer to a different hospital; hospital transfer
- —転置transposition
- —配転reshuffling; job rotation
- —転手tuning peg (on a biwa or shamisen)