| 翻江倒海 |
fān jiāng dǎo hǎi |
lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess |
| 翻 |
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 |
| 翻 |
fān |
variant of 翻 |
| 江 |
Jiāng |
surname Jiang / (bound form) Yangtze River / (bound form) Jiangsu Province (abbr. for 江苏) |
| 江 |
jiāng |
river / CL:条,道 |
| 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 |
| 海 |
Hǎi |
surname Hai |
| 海 |
hǎi |
ocean / sea / CL:个,片 / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous |