転 — revolve, turn around, change

てん転 revolve

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 11 strokes transport

U+8EE2 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #327 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #449 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

revolve
turn around
change

word

てん ten On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

転(てん) ten turn 運(うん) 転(てん) unten driving 自(じ) 転(てん) 車(しゃ) jitensha bicycle 回(かい) 転(てん) kaiten rotation 運(うん) 転(てん) 手(しゅ) untenshu driver 転(てん) 送(そう) tensou forwarding 転(てん) じる tenjiru to turn 転(てん) 落(らく) tenraku fall

ころ koro Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

転(ころ) がる korogaru to roll 転(ころ) ぶ korobu to fall down

Appears in idioms

七転八起四字熟語

seven, revolve, eight, rouse

七転び八起き慣用句

fall down seven times, get up eight

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

くるま車 car #159

云 cloud (archaic)

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#159 車 car