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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
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
fān- variant of 翻[fan1]
yún- (classical) to say
yún- surname Yun
- abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2nan2 Sheng3]
yún- cloud
- CL:朵[duo3]
- variant of 復|复[fu4]
- to reply to a letter
- to cover
- to overflow
- to overturn
- to capsize
- rain
- CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]
- (literary) to rain
- (of rain, snow etc) to fall
- to precipitate
- to wet

Other Words Containing 翻云覆雨

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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