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revolve, turn around, change

Kunころ.がる、ころ.げる、ころ.がす、ころ.ぶ、まろ.ぶ、うたた、うつ.る、くる.めく
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Radicals

Common words

  • 運転うんてん
    operation (of a machine), running, working, driving (a vehicle), use (of capital, funds, etc.), management, investment
  • 自転車じてんしゃ
    bicycle, bike
  • 運転手うんてんしゅ
    driver, chauffeur
  • 転ぶころぶ
    to fall down, to fall over, to turn out, to play out, to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism), to apostatize, to roll, to tumble, (for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secret
  • 回転かいてん
    rotation, revolution, turn, spin, working (e.g. of one's mind), function, turnover (of goods, funds, etc.), circulation, flow (of customers), rotation, curl, slalom
  • 移転いてん
    moving, relocation, change of address, transfer (of deeds, property, etc.), demise
  • 逆転勝ちぎゃくてんがち
    winning after defeat seems certain, coming from behind to win
  • 大回転だいかいてん
    giant slalom, big rotation
  • 転々てんてん
    moving from place to place, being passed around repeatedly, rolling about
  • 好転こうてん
    changing for the better
  • 不退転ふたいてん
    determination, conviction
  • 空転くうてん
    racing (of an engine), idling, going in circles (of an argument, discussion, etc.), spinning one's wheels, going nowhere
  • 反転はんてん
    rolling over, turning over, turning around (the other way), reversal (of direction, course, etc.), inversion, flipping, producing a positive from a negative, producing a negative from a positive, circle inversion, plane inversion
  • 転倒てんとう
    falling down, tumbling, overturning, turning over, reversing, inverting, inversion, getting upset
  • 転移てんい
    moving (location, with the times, etc.), change, transition, metastasis, spread, transition (e.g. phase transition), transfer (of learning), transference (in psychoanalysis)
  • 横転おうてん
    toppling sideways, turning sideways, falling over sideways, barrel roll
  • 転戦てんせん
    moving from one battlefield to another, fighting on successive fronts, fighting in various battles
  • 一転いってん
    one turn, spinning around, complete change, reversal, (an) about-face, sudden transformation
  • 本末転倒ほんまつてんとう
    putting the cart before the horse, mistaking the means for the end, getting one's priorities backwards
  • 試運転しうんてん
    trial run, test run
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