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If it is a ceiling fan, then there is a little chain on the base of the fan, not the light chain...usually on the opposite side, that you need to pull and it will change direction.

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They rotate both ways if its a ceiling fan it can be changed. Some fans suck and some blow that's why they turn different ways.

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if blades of fan connected to stator of motor used in it then rotation will be anticlockwise...

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