Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons

転: revolve, turn around

Also: change

JLPT N411 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

車 carries the meaning · 云 gives the sound

11 strokes

Four readings, and the words that use each

テンten · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 転機てんきturning point
  • 自転車じてんしゃbicycle
  • 転倒するてんとうするtumble, fall down
  • 転換するてんかんするconvert, divert, change
  • 転職するてんしょくするchange occupations
  • 回転するかいてんするrotate
  • 運転するうんてんするoperate, drive
  • 好転するこうてんするchange for the better
  • 逆転するぎゃくてんするreverse, turn around

ころがるkorogaru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 転がるころがるroll, tumble, fall down [v.i.]

ころがすkorogasu · kun'yomi

  • 転がすころがすroll [v.t.]

ころぶkorobu · kun'yomi

  • 転ぶころぶfall down [v.i.]

Also read ころげる, まろぶ, うたた, うつる, くるめく, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)車 carriage (meaning) + 專 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 轉 (rev. 92089221), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Cart radical + cloud/revolve (云) = the image of wheels revolving and turning continuously as a cart travels down a long road.”
From the 車 cart story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
車

Also built on cart (車)

All 19
云

Also built on 云

Also read テン

12 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
転 revolve · 云
vs軒 flats · 干
転 has 云 where 軒 has 干.
In ChineseSimplified 转 · traditional 轉 · zhuǎn

Three different forms: Japanese 転, simplified 转, traditional 轉.

Simplified
转 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
轉 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin zhuǎn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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