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.
We believed that the earth moves round the sun.
The earth moves at the rate of 68,130 miles an hour.