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Trad. 轉
- to turn
- to change direction
- to transfer
- to forward (mail)
- (Internet) to share (sb else's content)
Trad. 轉
- to revolve
- to turn
- to circle about
- to walk about
- classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm
- classifier for repeated actions
Trad. 轉差
- to slip (e.g. of clutch)
- slippage
- also used of economic indicators, statistical discrepancies etc
Trad. 玩轉
- to know all the ins and outs of sth
- to get to know (a place) inside out
Trad. 轉折
- shift in the trend of events
- turnaround
- plot shift in a book
- turn in the conversation
Trad. 轉文
- to parade by interspersing one's speech or writing with literary allusions
- Taiwan pr. [zhuan3 wen2]
Trad. 跳轉
- (computing) to jump to (a new location in a hypertext document)
Trad. 轉歸
- (of ownership, custody etc) to be transferred to
- to revert to
- (medicine) clinical outcome
- to reclassify (e.g. from asymptomatic carrier to confirmed case)
Trad. 轉注
- 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
Trad. 性轉
- (slang) to be genderswapped (abbr. for 性別轉換|性别转换[xing4 bie2 zhuan3 huan4])
Trad. 轉發
- to transmit
- to forward (mail, SMS, packets of data)
- to pass on
- to republish (an article from another publication)
Trad. 轉碼
- (computing) transcoding
- to convert (from one encoding to another)
Trad. 轉科
- to change major (at college)
- to take up a new specialist subject
- to transfer to a different medical department
Trad. 轉移
- to shift; to relocate; to transfer
- (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc)
- (medicine) to metastasize
Trad. 暗轉
- (theater) blackout (e.g. at the end of a scene)
- (literary) to be promoted in rank secretly
Trad. 轉背
- to turn one's back
- to turn around
- fig. change in a very short time
Trad. 周轉
- to rotate
- to circulate (cash, stock etc)
- turnover
- circulation
- cash flow
Trad. 轉調
- (music) to change key
- modulation
- (of an employee) to be transferred to another post
Trad. 扭轉
- to reverse
- to turn around (an undesirable situation)
- (mechanics) torsion
Trad. 轉身
- (of a person) to turn round
- to face about
- (of a widow) to remarry (archaic)
Trad. 轉載
- to forward (a shipment)
- to reprint sth published elsewhere
- Taiwan pr. [zhuan3 zai4]
Trad. 轉送
- to pass (sth) on (to sb else)
- to transfer sb (to another hospital etc)
Trad. 轉運
- to forward; to transfer; to transship
- to have luck turn in one's favor
Trad. 轉院
- to transfer (a patient) to a different hospital
- to transfer to hospital (e.g. a prisoner)
Trad. 轉頭
- to turn one's head
- to change direction
- U-turn
- volte face
- to repent
Trad. 反轉
- reversal
- inversion
- to reverse
- to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
Trad. 迴轉
- to revolve; to rotate
- to turn around; to turn back
- to go back; to return
- (skiing) slalom
Trad. 流轉
- to be on the move
- to roam or wander
- to circulate (of goods or capital)
Trad. 倒轉
- to make an about-turn; to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc; to turn things on their head
Trad. 倒轉
- (of time, or a video clip etc) to run in reverse
- Taiwan pr. [dao4zhuan3]
Trad. 轉位
- transposition
- displacement
- inversion
- translocation
- to displace
- to transpose
Trad. 轉動
- to rotate (about an axis)
- to revolve
- to turn
- to move in a circle
- to gyrate
Trad. 批轉
- to approve and forward
- to endorse
- stamp "approved for distribution"
Trad. 轉化
- to change; to turn; to convert
- (genetics) to transform
- (chemistry) isomerization
Trad. 轉口
- entrepot
- transit (of goods)
- (coll.) to deny
- to go back on one's word
Trad. 宛轉
- sinuous
- meandering
- to take a circuitous route
- to toss about
- vicissitudes
- variant of 婉轉|婉转[wan3 zhuan3]
Trad. 轉圈
- to rotate
- to twirl
- to run around
- to encircle
- rotation
- (coll.) to speak indirectly
- to beat about the bush
Trad. 轉型
- to undergo fundamental change; to transition; to transform
- to update (to a new model of product)
Trad. 調轉
- to reassign sb to a different job
- to turn around
- to change direction
- to make a U turn
Trad. 轉嫁
- to remarry (of widow)
- to pass on (blame, cost, obligation, unpleasant consequence etc)
- to transfer (blame, guilt)
- to pass the buck
Trad. 轉學
- (of a student) to change schools; to transfer from one school to another
Trad. 轉寫
- to transliterate; to transcribe
- to transfer words onto a surface by direct contact (as with a decal)
Trad. 二人轉
- genre of song-and-dance duet popular in northeast China
Trad. 轉法輪
- to transmit Buddhist teaching
- chakram or chakka (throwing disk)
Trad. 轉注字
- 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
Trad. 連軸轉
- (coll.) to work non-stop; to work around the clock
Trad. 軸旋轉
- to rotate about an axis
- axis of rotation (math.)
Trad. 轉腰子
- (coll.) to pace around nervously
- to speak indirectly
- to beat about the bush
Trad. 周轉金
- revolving fund
- working capital
- petty cash
- turnover