Chinese symbol for “turnaround”
转折
zhuǎn zhé
Traditional: 轉折
shift in the trend of events; turnaround; plot shift in a book; turn in the conversation
The closest CC-CEDICT match for turnaround is 转折 (zhuǎn zhé), defined as: shift in the trend of events; turnaround; plot shift in a book; turn in the conversation.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “turnaround”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 转折.
| 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 |
| 折磨 | zhé mó | to torment; to torture |
| 挫折 | cuò zhé | setback; reverse |
| 折腾 (折騰) | zhē teng | to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly); to repeat sth over and over again |
See also: Japanese symbol for “turnaround”.
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.