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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 翻云覆雨
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 翻云覆雨 | fān yún fù yǔ | - to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground - tricky and inconstant - to make love |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 22,771 | 59,683 | 41,533 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 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] |
| 云 | yún | - (classical) to say |
| 云 | yún | - surname Yun - abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2nan2 Sheng3] |
| 云 | yún | - cloud - CL:朵[duo3] |
| 复 | fù | - variant of 復|复[fu4] - to reply to a letter |
| 覆 | fù | - to cover - to overflow - to overturn - to capsize |
| 雨 | yǔ | - rain - CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2] |
| 雨 | yù | - (literary) to rain - (of rain, snow etc) to fall - to precipitate - to wet |
Other Words Containing 翻云覆雨
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 翻云覆雨 | - | - | 22,771 | 59,683 | 41,533 |