転 – revolve, turn around, change

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The kanji 転 means revolve, turn around, change. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is テン (ten); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is 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 (korogaru, korogeru, korogasu, korobu, marobu, utata, utsuru, kurumeku). It is written with 11 strokes, under radical 車 (no. 159).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	テン	ten
Kun’yomi	ころ.がる	korogaru
Kun’yomi	ころ.げる	korogeru
Kun’yomi	ころ.がす	korogasu
Kun’yomi	ころ.ぶ	korobu
Kun’yomi	まろ.ぶ	marobu
Kun’yomi	うたた	utata
Kun’yomi	うつ.る	utsuru
Kun’yomi	くる.めく	kurumeku

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 車 (Kangxi radical 159). Components: 車・二・厶.

Words using 転

自転車じてんしゃbicycle運転うんてんoperation (of a machine)運転手うんてんしゅdriver転ぶころぶto fall down転校てんこうchanging schools移転いてんmoving回転かいてんrotation転々てんてんmoving from place to place転がすころがすto roll転がるころがるto roll逆転ぎゃくてんreversal (of a situation)転換てんかんconversion転居てんきょmoving転勤てんきんjob transfer転任てんにんchange of post転落てんらくfall転じるてんじるto turn転回てんかいrevolution自転じてんrotation (on an axis)転ずるてんずるto turn

Example sentences

ケンは自転車を白く塗りました。

Ken painted his bicycle white.

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現在５０台の機械が運転中です。

Fifty of the machines are running at the present time.

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キャロルはレンタカーを運転しています。

Carol is driving a rent-a-car.

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Kanji with the same radical

軍車輸輪軽載較輝軸軟輩軒軌

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.