Illustration: In a Japanese pottery workshop, a lump of clay spins on an electric potter’s wheel beneath a beginner’s hovering hands. The circular wheel turns around its fixed central spindle, and a small uneven bump on the clay sweeps past the waiting fingertips.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

回かい転てん

kaiten

to rotate, to spin

Example sentences

こまはぐるぐる回転かいてんした。
The top went around and around.
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地球ちきゅうは地軸ちじくを中心ちゅうしんとして回転かいてんしている。
The Earth rotates on its axis.
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車輪しゃりんは車軸しゃじくで回転かいてんする。
Wheels turn on axles.
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Kanji in 回転

回-times; roundOnカイ・エKunまわる・まわす・まわし-
転revolve; turn aroundOnテンKunころがる・ころげる・ころがす

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