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転 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 運転(うんてん): operation; motion; driving移転(いてん): moving; transfer; demise運転手(うんてんしゅ): driver; chauffeur自転車(じてんしゃ): bicycle回転(かいてん): rotation (usu. around something); revolution; turning転勤(てんきん): job transfer; job relocation; intra-company transfer転居(てんきょ): moving; changing residence転換(てんかん): convert; divert逆転(ぎゃくてん): (sudden) change; reversal; turn-around; coming from behind (baseball)転じる(てんじる): to turn; to shift; to alter; to distract転落(てんらく): fall; degradation; slump; spill転々(てんてん): (1) moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly (2) rolling about転がす(ころがす): (1) to roll (2) to turn over; to tip over; to throw down (3) to leave (4) to buy and sell (quickly for a profit)転がる(ころがる): (1) to roll; to tumble (2) to fall over; to roll over (3) to lie down (4) to be scattered about; to be common (5) (of a situation or outcome) to change; to turn out転ぶ(ころぶ): to fall down; to fall over転ずる(てんずる): to turn; to shift; to alter; to distract転校(てんこう): change schools自転(じてん): rotation (usu. on an axis); turning; spin転任(てんにん): change of post転回(てんかい): revolution; rotation転寝(うたたね): dozing; napping (e.g. on the floor in one's clothes, in the train) 3 車: car云: say 車 7 轉 revolve Just a note to remember the cloud primative: The name of Goku´s pet cloud that he used to help him rise (fly) in the Dragonball anime series (and also the scientific name for a certain type of cloud) is Nimbus. The katakana-ization of this is {ニム}バス, so the rising cloud primative is just an abbreviation of that name written from top to bottom in the old Japanese style.

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テン revolve, turn around, change 4 327 11 159 くるま・くるまへん 形声 Phonetic The REVOLVING wheels of the car (with REVOLVER blaring on the stereo) kicked up RISING CLOUDS of dust.

Kanji	転
Onyomi	テン
Kunyomi	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
English	revolve, turn around, change
Examples	運転(うんてん): operation; motion; driving 移転(いてん): moving; transfer; demise 運転手(うんてんしゅ): driver; chauffeur 自転車(じてんしゃ): bicycle 回転(かいてん): rotation (usu. around something); revolution; turning 転勤(てんきん): job transfer; job relocation; intra-company transfer 転居(てんきょ): moving; changing residence 転換(てんかん): convert; divert 逆転(ぎゃくてん): (sudden) change; reversal; turn-around; coming from behind (baseball) 転じる(てんじる): to turn; to shift; to alter; to distract 転落(てんらく): fall; degradation; slump; spill 転々(てんてん): (1) moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly (2) rolling about 転がす(ころがす): (1) to roll (2) to turn over; to tip over; to throw down (3) to leave (4) to buy and sell (quickly for a profit) 転がる(ころがる): (1) to roll; to tumble (2) to fall over; to roll over (3) to lie down (4) to be scattered about; to be common (5) (of a situation or outcome) to change; to turn out 転ぶ(ころぶ): to fall down; to fall over 転ずる(てんずる): to turn; to shift; to alter; to distract 転校(てんこう): change schools 自転(じてん): rotation (usu. on an axis); turning; spin 転任(てんにん): change of post 転回(てんかい): revolution; rotation 転寝(うたたね): dozing; napping (e.g. on the floor in one's clothes, in the train)
JLPT Level	4
Jouyou Grade	3
Frequency	327
Components	車: car 云: say
Number of Strokes	11
Kanji Radical	車
Radical Number	159
Radical Strokes	7
Radical Reading	くるま・くるまへん
Traditional Form	轉
Classification	形声 Phonetic
Keyword	revolve
Koohii Story 1	The REVOLVING wheels of the car (with REVOLVER blaring on the stereo) kicked up RISING CLOUDS of dust.
Koohii Story 2	Just a note to remember the cloud primative: The name of Goku´s pet cloud that he used to help him rise (fly) in the Dragonball anime series (and also the scientific name for a certain type of cloud) is Nimbus. The katakana-ization of this is {ニム}バス, so the rising cloud primative is just an abbreviation of that name written from top to bottom in the old Japanese style.

Turn Change Rotation Fall Cloud Moving Transfer Usu