Onyomi: テン · Kunyomi: うたた, うつ.る, くる.めく, ころ.がす, ころ.がる, ころ.げる, ころ.ぶ, まろ.ぶ · Meanings: change, revolve, turn around
Kanji for change, revolve, turn around
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The kanji 転 combines the “cart/wheel” radical (車) with the character for “move” or “change” (云), symbolizing rolling or turning. In ancient times, it represented a cart turning or something changing position. 転 came to mean turn, revolve, or change, capturing movement, rotation, and transition.
A wheel turning — 転 means turn, revolve, or change position.
Imagine a cart wheel rolling along a path — that’s 転, the kanji for turning and movement.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 転 | くるり | turning around (once) | Adverb (fukushi), Adverb taking the 'to' particle |
| 転 | うたた | more and more, increasingly, all the more | Adverb (fukushi) |
| 転 | てん | change in pronunciation or meaning of a word, sound change, word with an altered pronunciation or meaning | Noun |
| 転々 | てんてん | moving from place to place, being passed around repeatedly | common JLPT-N2 JLPT-N1 Adverb (fukushi), Adverb taking the 'to' particle, Noun, Suru verb |
| 転勤 | てんきん | job transfer, job relocation, intra-company transfer | common JLPT-N1 Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |
| 転ぶ | ころぶ | to fall down, to fall over | common JLPT-N3 Godan verb with 'bu' ending, Intransitive verb |
| 転がる | ころがる | to roll, to tumble | common JLPT-N2 Godan verb with 'ru' ending, Intransitive verb |
| 転がす | ころがす | to roll, to wheel, to trundle, to drive (a car) | common JLPT-N2 Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verb |
| 転落 | てんらく | fall, tumble, spill, plunge, dive | common JLPT-N1 Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |
| 転じる | てんじる | to turn, to shift, to switch, to change, to alter | common JLPT-N1 Ichidan verb, Transitive verb, Intransitive verb |