转
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to turn; to change direction; to transfer; to forward (mail); (Internet) to share (sb else's content)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 車 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 轉
- Common rank
- #177
- Unicode
- U+8F6C
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Formation & memory
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Words with 转
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 转学生 | transfer student | |
| 山不转水转 | (lit.) if the mountain won't move, the river will go around it (idiom); (fig.) there's alw… | |
| 大转 | to turn left (Shanghainese) | |
| 转子 | (electricity) rotor | |
| 一转眼 | in the blink of an eye | |
| 中转 | to change (train or plane); transfer; correspondence | |
| 转头 | to turn one's head; to change direction; U-turn; volte face; to repent | |
| 转头 | nutation (plants turning to face the sun) | |
| 转学 | (of a student) to change schools; to transfer from one school to another | |
| 转生 | reincarnation (Buddhism) | |
| 转面无情 | to turn one's face against sb and show no mercy (idiom); to turn against a friend | |
| 山不转路转 | (lit.) if the mountain won't move, the road will go around it (idiom); (fig.) there's alwa… | |
| 转天 | the following day; next day | |
| 小转 | to turn right (Shanghainese) | |
| 自转 | (of a celestial body) to rotate on its own axis | |
| 性转 | (slang) to be genderswapped (abbr. for 性別轉換|性别转换[xing4 bie2 zhuan3 huan4]) | |
| 转性 | to change one's character or nature | |
| 转机 | (to take) a turn for the better; to change planes | |
| 转动 | to turn sth around; to swivel | |
| 转动 | to rotate (about an axis); to revolve; to turn; to move in a circle; to gyrate |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 专 — compare how they read.