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- to turn over
- to flip over
- to overturn
- to rummage through
- to translate
- to decode
- to double
- to climb over or into
- to cross
Trad. 翻動
- to flip over
- to turn (a page)
- to scroll (an electronic document)
- to stir (food in a pot etc)
- to move things about
- to rummage
- to make a photographic reproduction of an image or document etc; a reproduction
- to remake a movie or TV series; a remake
- to adapt (a novel etc) as a movie; an adaptation
Trad. 翻攝
- to create an image or video by copying an existing one (e.g. taking a photo of a picture in a magazine, recording a video playing on a monitor, taking a screenshot of an online photo)
- to remake (a film or TV show)
- to revamp
- a face-lift
- to retread (a tire)
- to refurbish (old clothes)
- newly emerging
- to reverse a verdict
- to present different views on a historical person or verdict
- to flip a table over (in a fit of anger)
- (at a restaurant) to turn over a table (i.e. to complete a cycle from the seating of one group of diners until the arrival of another group at the same table)
- suddenly and completely (realize, change one's strategy etc)
- also written 幡然[fan1 ran2]
Trad. 翻牆
- lit. to climb over the wall
- fig. to breach the Great Firewall of China
Trad. 翻盤
- to make a comeback
- (of a doctor's assessment of the gender of a fetus) to turn out to be wrong
- to overturn (a vehicle); to capsize; to turn upside down
- to change completely
Trad. 翻譯
- to translate
- to interpret
- translator
- interpreter
- translation
- interpretation
- CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- to turn over (when lying)
- (fig.) to free oneself
- to emancipate oneself
- to bring about a change of one's fortunes
Trad. 翻騰
- (of water, waves, emotions etc) to churn; to surge; to seethe
- to somersault; to tumble; to flip
- to rummage; to turn things over repeatedly
Trad. 翻石鷸
- (bird species of China) ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Trad. 翻老賬
- to turn over old accounts
- fig. to revive old quarrels
- to reopen old wounds
Trad. 翻舊賬
- to turn over old accounts
- fig. to revive old quarrels
- to reopen old wounds
- sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion
- everything turned on its head
Trad. 翻來覆去
- to toss and turn (sleeplessly)
- again and again
- sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion
- everything turned on its head
Trad. 翻山越嶺
- lit. to pass over mountain ridges (idiom)
- fig. hardships of the journey
- lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom)
- fig. overwhelming
- earth-shattering
- in a spectacular mess
- to see the error of one's ways
- to make a clean break with one's past
- (Tw) (coll.) earthquake (According to a folk tale, earthquakes are caused by the occasional movements of an ox that lives under the earth.)
- to overturn empty convention, and display originality (idiom); new and different ideas
Trad. 翻箱倒櫃
- to overturn trunks and boxes
- to make a thorough search (idiom)
Trad. 翻箱倒篋
- to overturn trunks and boxes
- to make a thorough search (idiom)
Trad. 翻老皇曆
- to look to the past for guidance (idiom)
Trad. 鹹魚翻身
- lit. the salted fish turns over (idiom)
- fig. to experience a reversal of fortune
Trad. 翻雲覆雨
- 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
- to work hard towards a turnaround
- to fight to reverse sth
Trad. 人仰馬翻
- to suffer a crushing defeat (idiom)
- in a pitiful state
- in a complete mess
- to roll (with laughter)
Trad. 陰溝裡翻船
- to meet with unexpected failure (idiom)
- to fail miserably (where failure was not expected)
Trad. 翻臉不認人
- to fall out with sb and become hostile
Trad. 鷹爪翻子拳
- Ying Zhua Fan Zi Quan - "Eagle Claw" - Martial Art
Trad. 翻手為雲覆手變雨
- lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain
- very powerful and capable (idiom)