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反はん転てん
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, transitive)
1. rolling over; turning over
The girl's body rolled over.
2. turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); inversion; flipping
The affection she had felt had completely reversed and turned into hatred.
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
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Conjugations...Used in: 1610
Composed of
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
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)
Used in vocabulary (11 in total)
counteroffensive
reverse video; white-on-black; white and black inversion
time reversal
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Examples (8 in total)
The girl's body rolled over.
I feel despair reversing into hope.
In a mirror, left and right are reversed.
My body flipped over and I was about to fall head-first.
She flipped her body over and landed feet first.
I rolled over on the futon and lay face down.
And after spinning around for a while, it turns about.
The affection she had felt had completely reversed and turned into hatred.