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轉

zhuǎn, zhuǎi, zhuàn

turn

Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 專 represents the sound.

Components
車 meaning component

車  Meaning component

chē, jū

  

vehicle

專 sound,meaning component

專  Sound Meaning component

zhuān

  

monopolize

Evolution

轉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
轉 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
轉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

转 (轉) 

zhuǎn

shift, move, turn; to turn; to change direction; to transfer; to forward (mail)

转 (轉) 

zhuǎi

see 轉文|转文[zhuǎi​wén]

转 (轉) 

zhuàn

to revolve; to circle about; to walk about; classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm; classifier for repeated actions

Most common words with 轉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

转

to turn

转移

to shift

转发

to transmit

转变

to change

转身

to face about

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

囀

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mə-tronʔ

trjwenX

zhuǎn

turn around, transfer

*tronʔ

trjwenX

zhuǎn

輾轉 toss and turn ((Ode 1.2, 145.3)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 72.6894% of movies

494th most common character in movies

376th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

转

Unicode

U+8F49

Shuowen

“轉，運也。从車，專聲。”


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