| 翻箱倒箧 |
fān xiāng dǎo qiè |
to overturn trunks and boxes / to make a thorough search (idiom) |
| 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 |
| 箱 |
xiāng |
box / trunk / chest |
| 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 |
| 箧 |
qiè |
chest / box / trunk / suitcase / portfolio |