転職
てんしょく · tenshoku
Change of job, change of occupation, career change
Other ways to say “change of job” in Japanese →
flat · what is pitch accent?
How it’s used
Used in professional contexts for changing employers or careers; more formal than 仕事を変える and implies a deliberate move, not just quitting.
Often confused with 退職 (taishoku), which means leaving a job; 転職 implies moving to a new one.
Example sentences
来月、転職します。
I'm changing jobs next month.
Nihoner
彼は転職を三回した。
He changed jobs three times.
Nihoner
Say it out loud
Press the microphone and say 転職 (てんしょく)
Your browser’s speech recognition checks whether it understood you (in Chrome, Google processes the audio). Nihoner doesn’t record anything.
Do you really know it?
Learn its family in 60 seconds
6 words that share a kanji with 転職. Tap each card — then save only the ones that are new to you.
Your memory hook
Link the sound or the kanji to something you already know — a personal hook is one of the fastest ways to make a word stick. It’s saved to your free account with the word.
Kanji in this word
Can you write it? Draw kanji from memory →
Words that share a kanji
Questions
What does 転職 mean?
Change of job, change of occupation, career change.
How do you pronounce 転職?
てんしょく (tenshoku). Pitch accent: heiban — flat. Press Listen above to hear it.
How do I remember 転職?
Say it out loud with an example sentence, test yourself above, then save it to your deck: Nihoner brings it back just before you would forget it (spaced repetition).
Save your words
Create a free account and they will be waiting in your review deck — Nihoner brings each one back right before you would forget it.
Free · no card · your words are kept