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转zhuǎn
turn
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 转 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 轉 | ||
| 轉 | zhuǎn | |
| 1. to turn; to revolve | ||
| 2. to wind; to entwine | ||
| 3. winding; circuitous | ||
| 4. to change; to shift; to alter | ||
| 轉換 - to change | ||
| 轉tńg 大人 - to become an adult, MN | ||
| 轉 敗 為 勝 - to turn defeat into victory | ||
| 5. to change direction; to turn | ||
| 6. (Southwest Mandarin, dialectal Cantonese, Hakka, Min, Wu) to return; to come or go back | ||
| 轉來 (2tsoe le, SH) - to come back; to return | ||
| 轉去 (2tsoe qi, SH) - to go back; to return | ||
| 7. (Wu) to think; to contemplate; to turn over in one's mind | ||
| 8. (Min Nan) to mediate; to reconcile | ||
| 9. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese) | ||
| 10. to change position; to move | ||
| 11. to wave; to flutter | ||
| 12. to divert; to transfer | ||
| 13. to evade; to avoid | ||
| 14. to be transferred to another post | ||
| 15. to sell; to transfer the ownership | ||
| 16. to transport; to relay; to carry in a cart | ||
| 17. to discard; to abandon | ||
| 18. to leave; to depart | ||
| 19. to chant; to utter (spell); to recite | ||
| 20. (intransitive) to revolve; to rotate; to turn | ||
| 21. revolution; rotation; turn | ||
| 22. (Cantonese, dialectal Hakka, dialectal Min, dialectal Wu) hair whorl | ||
| 23. number of times; time | ||
| 24. to wind around; to go around; bypass | ||
| 25. to lose (way); to get lost | ||
| 26. (colloquial) to stroll; to saunter; to amble; to wander | ||
| 27. Alternative form of 囀 (to chirp; to warble; to chirrup) | ||
| 28. (music) RPM | ||
| 78 轉zhuàn 黑膠 - 78 RPM record | ||
| 29. (Mandarin, colloquial) Alternative form of 拽 (to act pretentiously; to show off) | ||
| 30. (Min) to twist with force or with a tool | ||
| Chinese > Chinese | ||
| 转 | ||
| 1. (正字;轉) | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| turn | ||
| 1. 动词. 转 | ||
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Pronunciation
zhuǎn
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