轉

See also 転, and 转

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 車 (“carriage”) + phonetic 專

Han character

轉 (radical 159 車+11, 18 strokes, cangjie input 十十十戈戈 (JJJII), four-corner 5504₃, composition ⿰車專)

1. shift, move, turn

Descendants

• 囀

References

• KangXi: page 1248, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38507
• Dae Jaweon: page 1726, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3552, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8F49

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Cantonese

Hanzi

轉 (simplified 转, Yale jyun2, jyun3)

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Japanese

Kanji

轉

Readings

• On: てん (ten)
• Kun: ころぶ (korobu), ころがる (korogaru)

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Korean

Hanja

轉 (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

轉 (simplified 转, pinyin zhuǎn (zhuan3), Wade-Giles chuan³)

Compounds

• 轉注

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Vietnamese

Han character

轉 (chuyển, chuyên, chuyền, chuyến)