- 神魂颠倒 shénhúndiāndǎo infatuatedhead over heels in love, fascinated, or captivated
- 颠倒黑白 diāndǎohēibái to distort the truthTo deliberately misrepresent the facts or confuse right and wrong; literally "to invert black and white"
- 颠倒是非 diāndǎoshìfēi to confound right and wrong(idiom) To distort the facts; to deliberately mislead by treating right as wrong and wrong as right.
- 颠倒乾坤 diāndǎoqiánkūn to turn the world upside downTo turn the world upside down; used to describe having immense power or ability to change the state of affairs completely.
- 是非颠倒 shìfēidiāndǎo to confound right and wrongto mix up right and wrong; to distort the facts by representing what is right as wrong and vice versa
- 梦魂颠倒 mènghúndiāndǎo infatuatedTo be extremely infatuated or obsessed with someone; to lose one's head or be in a daze, as if in a dream.
- 本末颠倒 běnmòdiāndǎo to confuse the essential with the nonessentialTo reverse the primary and secondary importance of things; to put the incidental before the fundamental or the cart before the horse.
- 颠倒过来 diāndǎoguòlái to invertto turn upside down; to reverse or transpose
- 晨昏颠倒 chénhūndiāndǎo to turn night into dayTo have one's daily schedule reversed, such as working at night and sleeping during the day
- 颠颠倒倒 diāndiāndǎodǎo disorderlyconfused and incoherent; in a state of disorder or disarray
- 黑白颠倒 hēibáidiāndǎo to confuse right and wrongto confuse black and white; to misrepresent the facts or invert the truth, typically regarding matters of right and wrong or good and evil