EntryCommonJLPT N3WaniKani 12
  1. Godan verb with 'bu' ending, Intransitive verb

    to fall down; to fall over

    転んで手首を痛めました。
    I fell down and hurt my wrist.
  2. to turn out; to play out

    oft. as どう転んでも

  3. to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize

    in early Japanese Christianity

  4. to roll; to tumble

    see ころがる

  5. (for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secret

    Archaic

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

revolve, turn around, change

Kun
ころ.がる、ころ.げる、ころ.がす、ころ.ぶ、まろ.ぶ、うたた、うつ.る、くる.めく
On
テン
Strokes
11
Taught
Grade 3
JLPT
N4
Frequency
327 of 2500
Radical
cart
WaniKani
Level 10

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Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
1-7-4SKIP code
7c4.3The Kanji Dictionary
5103.1Four corner code
1571deroo
8ee2Unicode hex code
1-37-30JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4615Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5948New Nelson (John Haig)
1480New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1872Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
995Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1346Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
420Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
449Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
339A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1656Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
515Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
38234PMorohashi
354A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
433Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
439Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
479sakade
257Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
375henshall3
383Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
65Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.16busy_people
1773Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
427Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhuan3, zhuai3, zhuan4Pinyin reading
jeonKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
10WaniKani level