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Definition(s) for: 颠倒黑白

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
颠倒黑白 diān dǎo hēi bái - lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately
- to misrepresent the facts
- to invert right and wrong

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
- - 40,477 49,710 35,357

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
颠 diān- top (of the head)
- apex
- to fall forwards
- inverted
- to jolt
倒 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
倒 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
黑 hēi- abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]
黑 hēi- black
- dark
- sinister
- secret
- shady
- illegal
- to hide (sth) away
- to vilify
- (loanword) to hack (computing)
白 bái- surname Bai
白 bái- white
- snowy
- pure
- bright
- empty
- blank
- plain
- clear
- to make clear
- in vain
- gratuitous
- free of charge
- reactionary
- anti-communist
- funeral
- to stare coldly
- to write wrong character
- to state
- to explain
- vernacular
- spoken lines in opera

Other Words Containing 颠倒黑白

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
颠倒黑白 - - 40,477 49,710 35,357