かいてん
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, intransitive)
1. rotation; revolution; turn; spin
2. working (e.g. of one's mind); function
3. turnover (of goods, funds, etc.); circulation; flow (of customers)
4. rotation; curl
Noun
Abbreviation
Skiing
5. slalom
Pitch accent
か
いてん
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 (5 in total)
The planets revolve around the sun.
The moon revolves around the earth.
The Earth rotates on its axis.