Illustration: A mandarin orange rolls down the gently sloping concrete approach outside a neighborhood greengrocer. Its small attached leaf is caught underneath as the fruit turns, and a faint curved scuff in loose dust follows its path from a shallow display tray behind it. Nobody touches the orange.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

転ころがる

korogaru

to roll, to tumble

Example sentences

車輪しゃりんはゆっくり転ころがり始はじめた。
The wheel began to roll slowly.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
ボールは道みちの向むこう側がわに転ころがった。
The ball rolled across the road.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
ボールは芝生しばふを横切よこぎって転ころがっていった。
The ball rolled across the lawn.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 転

転revolve; turn aroundOnテンKunころがる・ころげる・ころがす

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences

Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store

For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store