反転 – Vocabulary details

反はん転てん

Meanings

Noun

Verb (する, transitive)

1. rolling over; turning over

2. turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); inversion; flipping

3. producing a positive from a negative; producing a negative from a positive

4. circle inversion; plane inversion

Kanji used

反

be against

転

roll around

Pitch accent

は

んてん

Conjugations...Used in: 1472

Composed of

反はん

anti-; antithesis; fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone

転てん

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)