Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tonʔ, *tons) : semantic 車 ‎(“carriage”) + phonetic 專 ‎(OC *tjon) – to transport in a cart.

Etymology

Possibly related to:

• Old Tibetan འདྲུལ ‎('drul, “to transmit; to communicate”) (Schuessler, 2007), or
• Tibetan སྲུལ་བ ‎(srul ba, “to move to and fro; to stir”), Burmese ရွေ့ ‎(rwe., “to move; to be displaced”), ရွှေ့ ‎(hrwe., “to move or shift something”) (Starostin).

An allofam is perhaps *don (“round”). Compare Vietnamese tròn ‎(“round; circle; entire; whole”), trọn ‎(“fully; completely; all”), as well as the following Chinese words:

• 團 (OC *doːn, “ball; circle; lump”),
• 摶 (OC *doːn, *doːn, *donʔ, “to roll up into a ball”).

Derivative: 傳 (OC *tons, *don, *dons, “to relay; to pass on; to transfer; relay station; biography; record”).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

轉

1. (transitive) to turn; to revolve
2. to wind; to entwine
3. winding; circuitous
4. to change; to shift; to alter
5. to change direction; to turn
6. (dialectal Cantonese, Hakka, Min, Wu) to return; to come or go back
   • 轉來 / 转来 [Shanghainese]  ―  [t͡sø³³ lᴇ⁴⁴] [IPA]  ―  to come back; to return
   • 轉去 / 转去 [Shanghainese]  ―  [t͡sø³³ t͡ɕʰi⁴⁴] [IPA]  ―  to go back; to return
7. (Wu) to think; to contemplate; to turn over in one's mind
8. (Min Nan) to mediate; to reconcile
9. (dialectal Mandarin) Classifier for times or round trips.
10. to change position; to move
11. to wave; to flutter
12. to divert; to transfer
13. to evade; to avoid
14. to be transferred to another post
15. to sell; to transfer the ownership
16. to transport; to relay; to carry in a cart
17. to discard; to abandon
18. to leave; to depart
19. to chant; to utter (spell); to recite
20. A surname​.

Synonyms

• (to return):

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

轉

1. (intransitive) to revolve; to rotate; to turn
2. revolution; rotation; turn
3. (Cantonese, dialectal Hakka, dialectal Min, dialectal Wu) hair whorl
4. number of times; time
5. to wind around; to go around; bypass
6. to lose (way); to get lost
7. (colloquial) to stroll; to saunter; to amble; to wander
8. Alternative form of 囀／啭 (zhuàn, “to chirp; to warble; to chirrup”).

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

轉

1. (Mandarin, colloquial) Alternative form of 拽 (“to act pretentiously; to show off”).

Compounds

Pronunciation 4

Definitions

轉

1. (Min) to twist with force or with a tool

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 転)

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Readings

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

Korean

Hanja

轉 • ‎(jeon)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 전 (revised: jeon, McCune-Reischauer: chŏn, Yale: cen)

• Name (hangeul): 구를()

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Vietnamese

Han character

轉 (chuyển, chuyên, chuyền, chuyến)

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