翻云覆雨 |
fān yún fù yǔ |
to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground / tricky and inconstant / to make love |
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 |
云 |
yún |
(classical) to say |
云 |
Yún |
surname Yun / abbr. for Yunnan Province 云南省 |
云 |
yún |
cloud / CL:朵 |
覆 |
fù |
to cover / to overflow / to overturn / to capsize |
雨 |
yǔ |
rain / CL:阵,场 |
雨 |
yù |
(literary) to rain / (of rain, snow etc) to fall / to precipitate / to wet |