Chinese Character Wiki
转

zhuǎn, zhuǎi, zhuàn

turn

Simplified form of 轉. Phonosemantic compound. 车 represents the meaning and 專 represents the sound.

Components
车 meaning component

车  Meaning component

chē, jū

  

vehicle

专 sound,meaning component

专  Sound Meaning component

zhuān

  

monopolize

Evolution

转 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
转 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
转 Simplified script Modern

Simplified 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 转
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)

啭

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 72.6894% of movies

494th most common character in movies

376th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

轉

Unicode

U+8F6C


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