顛乾倒坤
diān​qián​dǎo​kūn

to turn the world upside down

  • created sense approved 颠乾倒坤/顛乾倒坤 · diān​qián​dǎo​kūn · to turn the world upside down — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    颠乾倒坤 / 顛乾倒坤

    diān​qián​dǎo​kūn

    to turn the world upside down

    to invert the order of heaven and earth; to bring about a radical change in the state of affairs or the natural order

    颠 (literal) → 颠/顛 · diān · to invert 乾 (literal) → 乾 · qián · [trigram] 倒 (literal) → 倒 · dào · inverted 坤 (literal) → 坤 · kūn · [the Earth trigram]

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense