カイテン
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, intransitive)
1. rotation; revolution; turn; spin
Listen, the important thing is the rotation of your hips.
2. working (e.g. of one's mind); function
It is necessary to constantly keep one's mind working and grasp the situation.
3. turnover (of goods, funds, etc.); circulation; flow (of customers)
This restaurant has a quick turnover of customers.
4. rotation; curl
Noun
Abbreviation
Skiing
5. slalom
Pitch accent
カ
イテン
Composed of
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
change in pronunciation or meaning of a word; sound change; word with an altered pronunciation or meaning; turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)
Used in vocabulary (56 in total)
full operation
thoughts; thinking
number of revolutions (i.e. as an engine speed); number of rotations; speed of revolution; speed of rotation
Examples (22 in total)
It is rotating only in the same direction.
The hips rotated cleanly.
The flow of funds has slowed down.
Rotation requires an axis.
For a ramen shop, customer turnover is everything.
And then, it began to rotate slowly.
The tip rotates and glows.
I also want to try spinning at high speed.
The box spins around in midair.
The planets revolve around the sun.
The pen spins unsteadily, round and round.
I didn't get enough sleep, so my mind isn't working well.
The moon revolves around the earth.
The Earth rotates on its axis.
This restaurant has a quick turnover of customers.
Listen, the important thing is the rotation of your hips.
Looking over my notes once more, I get my brain working.
In an instant, the shield rotated around on the spot.
We believed that the earth moves round the sun.
I clasp my hands behind my back and spin halfway around.
The earth moves at the rate of 68,130 miles an hour.
It is necessary to constantly keep one's mind working and grasp the situation.