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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *轉* | 轉* | *轉
to turn / to change direction / to transfer / to forward (mail) / (Internet) to share (sb else's content)
HSK 3
to change / to transform / shift / transformation / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
(of a person) to turn round / to face about / (of a widow) to remarry (archaic)
HSK 4
to turn sth around / to swivel
HSK 4
to turn / to go around a corner
HSK 4
to pass on / to communicate / to transmit
HSK 4
to shift; to relocate; to transfer / (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc) / (medicine) to metastasize
HSK 4
to change / to switch / to convert / to transform
HSK 5
to change; to turn; to convert / (genetics) to transform / (chemistry) isomerization
HSK 5
to change direction / fig. to change one's stance
HSK 5
to transfer (ownership, rights etc)
HSK 5
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
to rotate (about an axis) / to revolve / to turn / to move in a circle / to gyrate
HSK 6
(of a student) to change schools; to transfer from one school to another
HSK 7-9
(to take) a turn for the better / to change planes
HSK 7-9
to forward (a shipment) / to reprint sth published elsewhere / Taiwan pr. [zhuan3 zai4]
HSK 7-9
relay / broadcast (on radio or TV)
HSK 7-9
in a flash / in the blink of an eye / to glance
HSK 7-9
to roll / to wander around / to appear repeatedly
HSK 7-9
turning point / breaking point
HSK 7-9
to pass on to sb / to carry and give to sb else
HSK 7-9
to pass on / to convey / to communicate
HSK 7-9
to undergo fundamental change; to transition; to transform / to update (to a new model of product)
HSK 7-9
shift in the trend of events / turnaround / plot shift in a book / turn in the conversation
HSK 7-9
to pass on (stories) / to relate
(of ownership, custody etc) to be transferred to / to revert to / (medicine) clinical outcome / to reclassify (e.g. from asymptomatic carrier to confirmed case)
transposition / displacement / inversion / translocation / to displace / to transpose
index (rotating gauge) / cam gradation
tachometer / RPM gauge
reincarnation or transmigration (Buddhism)
turntable / rotary (traffic)
amino transferase (enzyme)
(agriculture) to switch to growing a different crop
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *轉* | 轉* | *轉
to change over to; to shift to; to switch to
to rove around / to run around in circles / to walk back and forth
fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom); constant fighting across the country / never-ending struggle
(music) to change key / modulation / (of an employee) to be transferred to another post
to forward; to transfer; to transship / to have luck turn in one's favor
converter / transducer
to forward (a letter, email, package etc)
to get lost / to lose one's way
to turn one's head / to change direction / U-turn / volte face / to repent
nutation (plants turning to face the sun)
(telephony etc) to switch / to connect / to transfer
transcription / to make a copy of a recording
to transmit / to forward (mail, SMS, packets of data) / to pass on / to republish (an article from another publication)
to transfer (a patient for treatment in a different hospital)
to turn one's back / to turn around / fig. change in a very short time
to turn to (sth else); to switch to
angular velocity / number of revolutions per minute
to sublet / to sublease
distribution depot / staging post / transit center
to transfer to full membership / to obtain tenure
in the twinkling of an eye / in a flash / to turn one's eyes
to resell
to fight in one place after another
rotating disk / wheel / rotor / cycle of reincarnation in Buddhism
turning point
to change the channel (TV)
rotating stage / swivel table
to pass (sth) on (to sb else) / to transfer sb (to another hospital etc)
(electricity) rotor
to remarry (of widow) / to pass on (blame, cost, obligation, unpleasant consequence etc) / to transfer (blame, guilt) / to pass the buck
to transfer / to change trains, buses etc
a turntable
(idiom) fleeting; transitory
(idiom) in the wink of an eye; in a flash
transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character with meanings influenced by other words / sometimes called mutually explanatory character
swivel chair / children's roundabout
axis of rotation
to save or redeem (a situation) / to mediate / to intercede
to transfer (a patient) to a different hospital / to transfer to hospital (e.g. a prisoner)
to turn one's head / in no time / in the twinkling of an eye
to shift one's eyes / (fig.) to shift one's attention / to divert attention
to transliterate; to transcribe / to transfer words onto a surface by direct contact (as with a decal)
to pass on; to relay
Chakravarti raja (Sanskrit: King of Kings) / emperor in Hindu mythology
to change production / to move over to new products
to change major (at college) / to take up a new specialist subject / to transfer to a different medical department
the following year; next year
to translate (to another language) / to convert
muscle cramp
to change one's profession / to transfer to civilian work
to change one's viewpoint / to turn from side to side (in bed)
to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert a danger (esp. political or medical)
to pass on a present
to parade by interspersing one's speech or writing with literary allusions / Taiwan pr. [zhuan3 wen2]
(Internet) to repost (Tw)
to change track
revolver (handgun)
change of rhyme (within a poem)
entrepot / transit (of goods) / (coll.) to deny / to go back on one's word
to change profession
metonymy
toy in a capsule (dispensed from a vending machine)
to turn defeat into victory (idiom); snatching victory from the jaws of defeat
converter (rotary furnace in steelmaking)
to change (to final stretch of journey)

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