| 物 |
wù jí bì fǎn | when things reach an extreme, they can only move in the opposite direction (idiom) |
| 物 |
wù | (bound form) thing / (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself |
| 极 |
jí | extremely / pole (geography, physics) / utmost / top |
| 必 |
bì | certainly / must / will / necessarily |
| 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 |