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to rotate / to revolve / to spin / to whirl
HSK 6
to improve / to take a turn for the better / improvement
HSK 6
to know all the ins and outs of sth / to get to know (a place) inside out
lit. pearl flows, jade moves on (idiom); fig. the passage of time / water under the bridge
to rotate about an axis / axis of rotation (math.)
lit. the Big Dipper 北斗星 has turned and the stars have moved / time flies / also written 斗轉星移|斗转星移
the mountain road twists around each new peak (idiom) / (of a mountain road) twisting and turning / fig. an opportunity has come unexpectedly / things have taken a new turn
HSK 7-9
orbital revolution
to approve and forward / to endorse / stamp "approved for distribution"
deflection (physics) / deviation (away from a straight line)
the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom); giddy with one's head spinning / fig. huge changes in the world
to change (train or plane) / transfer / correspondence
to rotate / to circulate (cash, stock etc) / turnover / circulation / cash flow
lit. if the mountain won't move, the river will go around it (idiom) / fig. there's always a way forward, even when faced with obstacles
(slang) to be genderswapped (abbr. for 性別轉換|性别转换)
lit. if the mountain won't move, the road will go around it (idiom) / fig. there's always a way forward, even when faced with obstacles
(medicine) testicular torsion
to reverse / to turn around (an undesirable situation) / (mechanics) torsion
HSK 7-9
genre of song-and-dance duet popular in northeast China
fast-forward
to turn left (Shanghainese)
to be on the move / to roam or wander / to circulate (of goods or capital)
HSK 7-9
to roll / to turn over / to invert / to flip
(voice, music) suave / mellow / (speech) indirect / tactful
the time comes, fortune turns (idiom); to have a lucky break / things change for the better
to turn around
cash flow
lit. the sky shakes and the ground revolves / momentous changes are underway (idiom)
to transmit a document (up or down a chain of bureaucracy)
(lit. and fig.) to go around and around; to wander around
to spin / to rotate / to revolve
to reassign sb to a different job / to turn around / to change direction / to make a U turn
reflex (angle) / to turn back
to rotate
(of a celestial body) to rotate on its own axis
to turn right
can handle it / up to the task
to go round and round / running around in circles / fig. frantically busy
to toss about in bed / from person to person / indirectly / to wander
to turn / to turn around / to transfer (funds etc)
can't handle it / can't find any way (of doing sth) / not up to the task
to demobilize / to transfer to other tasks (of troops)
cash flow
to turn away / to turn one's back to / (gymnastics etc) backspin
(computing) to jump to (a new location in a hypertext document)
to whirl / to turn around quickly
reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
to go for a stroll
to wake up; to regain consciousness
(coll.) to work non-stop; to work around the clock
irreversible
to work / to operate / to revolve / to turn around
HSK 7-9
to make an about-turn; to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc; to turn things on their head
(of time, or a video clip etc) to run in reverse / Taiwan pr. [dao4zhuan3]
to turn right (Shanghainese)
to turn back / to reverse
(theater) blackout (e.g. at the end of a scene) / (literary) to be promoted in rank secretly
to fool / to dupe
to change the direction or tone of a conversation
the Wheel turns constantly (idiom); Buddhist teaching will overcome everything
to spin rapidly; to whirl around / (of time) to fly by
reflex (angle) / to turn back
to shift / to transfer
to turn left
fortunes rise and fall; times change
variant of 迴轉|回转
to revolve; to rotate / to turn around; to turn back / to go back; to return / (skiing) slalom
variant of 輾轉|辗转
sinuous / meandering / to take a circuitous route / to toss about / vicissitudes / variant of 婉轉|婉转
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *轉* | 轉* | *轉
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *轉* | 轉* | *轉
to turn / to change direction / to transfer / to forward (mail) / (Internet) to share (sb else's content)
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *轉* | 轉* | *轉
to revolve / to turn / to circle about / to walk about / classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm / classifier for repeated actions
HSK 6


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