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Definition(s) for: 翻江倒海

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
翻江倒海 fān jiāng dǎo hǎi - lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom)
- fig. overwhelming
- earth-shattering
- in a spectacular mess

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
- - 34,541 48,710 27,899

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]
jiāng- surname Jiang
jiāng- river
- CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]
dǎo- to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally
- to fail; to go bankrupt
- to overthrow
- to change (trains or buses)
- to move around
- to resell at a profit
dào- to invert; to place upside down or frontside back
- to pour out
- to tip out; to dump
- inverted; upside down; reversed
- to go backward
- contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
hǎi- surname Hai
hǎi- ocean
- sea
- CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4]
- great number of people or things
- (dialect) numerous

Other Words Containing 翻江倒海

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
翻江倒海 - - 34,541 48,710 27,899