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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 天翻地覆
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 天翻地覆 | tiān fān dì fù | - sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion - everything turned on its head |
List Ranking:
Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.
| HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 16,120 | 36,949 | 34,356 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 天 | tiān | - day - sky - heaven |
| 翻 | fān | - to turn over - to flip over - to overturn - to rummage through - to translate - to decode - to double - to climb over or into - to cross |
| 翻 | fān | - variant of 翻[fan1] |
| 地 | de | - -ly - structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct |
| 地 | dì | - earth - ground - field - place - land - CL:片[pian4] |
| 复 | fù | - variant of 復|复[fu4] - to reply to a letter |
| 覆 | fù | - to cover - to overflow - to overturn - to capsize |
Other Words Containing 天翻地覆
Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.
| Word | HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 天翻地覆 | - | - | 16,120 | 36,949 | 34,356 |