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
- —転軫tuning peg (on a biwa or shamisen)
- —転句turning or twisting part of a text
- —転作crop diversification; crop rotation; change of crops
- —輾転rolling about; tossing and turning (in bed); jactitation; jactation
- —転封forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain
- —化転turning evil into good through proselytization
- —外転abduction; eversion; exodeviation; exstrophy
- —内転adduction; rolling internally; intorsion
- —転合prank; joke
- —躁転manic switch; entering a manic episode; becoming manic; cycle
- —転流translocation; drift
- —転座translocation
- —転質repledge (of collateral); repledging; subpledge
- —転呼sound shift (esp. in historical kana); new pronunciation
- —転活looking for a new job
- —後転backward somersault; backward roll
- —転帰outcome (esp. of illness); result; consequence
- —転舵change of course (of a ship); steering
- —転筆brush movement where a horizontal line turns sharply downwards (in calligraphy)
- —転園changing kindergartens; moving (an animal) to a different zoo