かいてん
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する)
1. rotation (usu. around something); revolution; turning
Pitch accent
いてん
Composed of
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
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 (52 in total)
swivel chair
flashing lights; revolving lights; lights used on the top of emergency vehicles
one revolution; one rotation
Examples (5 in total)
The planets revolve around the sun.
The moon revolves around the earth.
The Earth rotates on its axis.
We believed that the earth moves round the sun.
The earth moves at the rate of 68,130 miles an hour.