| 倒反天纲 |
dào fǎn tiān gāng |
to violate the natural order; to defy social norms |
| 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 |
| 倒反 |
dào fǎn |
instead / on the contrary / contrary (to expectations) |
| 反 |
fǎn |
contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切 phonetic system |
| 天 |
tiān |
day / sky / heaven |
| 纲 |
gāng |
head rope of a fishing net / guiding principle / key link / class (taxonomy) / outline / program |