Characters › 转
8 strokes · radical 车 (car) · traditional 轉
18 strokes · simplified 转
A way to remember it
A cart, 车, beside 专 for the sound. Wheels turn, so 转 turns: 转身, 转变, 转告.
A picture that makes the shape stick — not a claim about the character’s history.
Draft — written with AI help and not yet read by a person. What that means.
Shown in simplified. Converting whole words needs one-to-many knowledge this site does not have — 发 is 發 in 出发 but 髮 in 头发 — and a confidently wrong word would be worse than an honest simplified one.
Got it. Tell someone:
to turn; to change direction
zhuǎn — to turn; to change direction
Radical 车 (car) · 8 strokes · traditional 轉
18 strokes · simplified 转
A way to remember itA cart, 车, beside 专 for the sound. Wheels turn, so 转 turns: 转身, 转变, 转告.