• 翻ひるがえる — to flutter or flip over in the wind
• 翻ひるがえす — to flip something over; to reverse
• 翻訳ほんやく — translation; rendering text into another language
• 翻弄ほんろう — to be toyed with; to be manipulated or pushed around

The radical 羽 suggests wings or feathers, something that flaps and turns in the air. The rest of the character gives the sound ホン and hints at repeated turning or changing. Together, 翻 first pictured wings flipping and reversing direction, and by extension came to mean turning things over or transforming them — like “turning over” words from one language into another in translation.