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The character "转", whose traditional form is "轉", structurally combines the radical "車" for vehicle with the component "專", which historically served as a phonetic indicator and contributed to the sense of concentrated or pivotal motion, thus originally denoting the act of turning or revolving, as in a wheel's rotation. From this concrete meaning, its usage extended over time to include more abstract senses of change, transformation, and the transfer of objects, positions, or ideas. The simplified form "转" preserves the vehicle radical but replaces "專" with the streamlined component "专", continuing to represent the same core concepts of turning and change through a modified graphical structure.
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车子转弯了。
他转身离开了。
火车转轨了。
她转学去上海。
请转告他这个消息。
他的态度转变了。
公司正在转型中。
这个项目需要转换思路。