Zi:转
转(F轉) [zhuǎn] turn; transfer [zhuàn] rotate/spin; 转转 go for a spin/stroll [zhuǎi] 转文 [zhuān] cf. 轉
3 monosyllabic entries in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►zhuǎn* 转[轉] {B} v. ①turn; shift; change ‖ Bạ̌ liǎn ∼ guòlai. 把脸∼过来。 Turn your face towards me. ②convey; pass on; transfer; transmit ‖ Qị̌ng bǎ zhè ²fēng xìn ∼gẹ̌i nị̌ jiějie. 请把这封信∼给你姐姐。 Please pass this letter on to your sister. ◆n. 〈environment:〉 lg. alternation of rhyme
►¹zhuàn 转[轉] {B} v. turn; revolve; rotate ‖ Lúnzi ∼ de tài kuài le. 轮子∼得太快了。 The wheel is revolving too fast. ◆m. (for turns/revolutions)
►zhuǎi 转[轉] v. lard one's speech with literary phrases to display erudition
The Shuōwén Seal form of 转/轉 zhuǎn ‘return; turn round’ combines 车/車 (chē) ‘cart’ (with turning wheels), and 专/專 zhuān ‘ceramic spindle’ (phonosemantic).
Compare: 抟/摶 tuán ‘roll sth. up into balls’; 团/團 tuán ‘round (ball/lump)’.
Note: Both 转 zhuǎn/zhuàn verbs can be intransitive or transitive; the meanings ‘turn’ and ‘spin/rotate’ are sometimes hard to distinguish (in English at least), and some words such as 转动 have both readings; 转 zhuǎn ‘turn’ (both lit. and fig.) occurs in many more compounds (510 in ABC, to date); 转 zhuàn occurs in fewer compounds (only 86), mainly in the sense of ‘rotate/spin (literal rotation about an axis)’, though there is also fig. usage, as in 转转 ‘go for a spin/stroll’.
GFC: 转 : zhuǎn : ⑴ 变换 (方向, 情况等) ‘change (direction, situation, etc.)’: “转动一下身体, 换个姿势” ‘turn (your) body around, and change position’ [intransitive]; “转动车把” ‘turn the handlebar (of a bike, to change direction)’ [transitive]; “向后转” ‘turn around’, “掉转船头” ‘turn the boat around’; “转败为胜” ‘turn loss into victory’, 转念 ‘change ones's mind’; ⑵ 把一方的物品, 意见等带给另一方 ‘carry/transmit’: “请把信转给他” ‘please pass/transfer the letter to him’, 转告 ‘transmit a message’, 转达 ‘convey/communicate’.
GFC: 转 : zhuàn : ⑴ 围绕着一个中心运动 ‘spin/rotate about a central point/axis’: “车轮飞转动” ‘the wheel spins quickly (on its axel)’ (轮飞, 飞快) [intransitive]; “轮子转得很快” ‘the wheel spins quickly’ [intransitive] (HDZ); “转动摇把” ‘spin/rotate the handle/lever (of a machine)’ [transitive]; “地球绕着太阳转” ‘the earth rotates around the sun’; cf. 地球自转 ‘earth's axial rotation’; ⑵ 闲逛: 转圈 ‘rotate’; “到公园转一转” ‘take a stroll to the park’, 转悠 ‘stroll’; ⑶“绕一圈” = “绕一转” also, (m.w.) ‘circuits/spins’ around something.
GFC: 转 : zhuǎi : 转文 zhuǎiwén (‘文绉绉’) (口语).
►references: Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:5.3517.4; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:075.1.10; EDOC:0
►components: 车专
►Cantonese: jyun/ jyun-
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