Chinese symbol for “turn”
转
zhuǎn
Traditional: 轉
to turn; to change direction; to transfer; to forward (mail)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for turn is 转 (zhuǎn), defined as: to turn; to change direction; to transfer; to forward (mail); (Internet) to share (sb else's content).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “turn”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 纽 (紐) | niǔ | to turn; to wrench |
| 扭 | niǔ | to turn; to twist |
| 转弯 (轉彎) | zhuǎn wān | to turn; to go around a corner |
| 拐 | guǎi | to turn (a corner etc); to kidnap |
| 转化 (轉化) | zhuǎn huà | to change; to turn; to convert; (genetics) to transform |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 转.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 转移 (轉移) | zhuǎn yí | to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc) |
| 转变 (轉變) | zhuǎn biàn | to change; to transform |
| 转型 (轉型) | zhuǎn xíng | to undergo fundamental change; to transition; to transform; to update (to a new model of product) |
| 转化 (轉化) | zhuǎn huà | to change; to turn; to convert; (genetics) to transform |
| 转向 (轉向) | zhuǎn xiàng | to change direction; fig. to change one's stance |
See also: Japanese symbol for “turn”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.