Illustration: In a Japanese wholesale market's damp loading yard, a worker turns a small utility cart around within a broad open turning space. Its front wheels are sharply angled, the rear wheels follow a clear semicircle of wet tracks, and the vehicle is now facing back toward the passage from which it came.

Beyond N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

転てん回かい

tenkai

to turn, to change direction

Example sentences

  1. こうした考かんがえが、政策方針せいさくほうしんの転回てんかいの背景はいけいにあった。

    The above intention was the background of the policy change.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. バス乗のり場ばだった当時とうじは、転回てんかいするスペースがないため、転車台てんしゃだいが設置せっちされていた。

    When the place was used as a bus stop, a turntable was provided there for changing the directions in which the buses ran, because the place had insufficient room.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. この戦たたかいは日清戦争にっしんせんそうの展開てんかいを日本にっぽんに有利ゆうりにする重大じゅうだいな転回てんかい点てんであった。

    This battle was a major turning point that shifted the course of the Sino-Japanese War in Japan’s favor.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 転回

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

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