颠 — Chinese character
颠
diān
peak, summit, top; to upset
- Pinyin
- diān
- Radical
- 181 ⾴ (Leaf)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 真 页
- Formation
- pictophonetic — head; meaning component 页; sound component 真
- Traditional
- 顛
Common words with 颠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 颠覆 (顛覆) | diān fù | to topple (i.e. knock over); to capsize |
| 颠倒 (顛倒) | diān dǎo | to turn upside down; to reverse |
| 颠簸 (顛簸) | diān bǒ | to be jolted around (car on a bumpy road, boat on a rough sea, aircraft experiencing turbulence); (fig.) to undergo a rough experience |
| 神魂颠倒 (神魂顛倒) | shén hún diān dǎo | lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love; fascinated |
| 颠倒黑白 (顛倒黑白) | diān dǎo hēi bái | lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately; to misrepresent the facts |
| 颠沛流离 (顛沛流離) | diān pèi liú lí | homeless and miserable (idiom); to wander about in a desperate plight; to drift |
| 颠倒是非 (顛倒是非) | diān dǎo shì fēi | (idiom) to distort right and wrong; to deliberately mislead |
| 颠峰 (顛峰) | diān fēng | variant of 巅峰 (diān fēng) |
| 颠儿 (顛兒) | diān r | (Beijing dialect) to skedaddle; to make oneself scarce |
| 颠沛 (顛沛) | diān pèi | to fall over; to stumble; (fig.) to suffer hardship; to be in desperate straits |
| 颠茄 (顛茄) | diān qié | deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) |
| 颠扑不破 (顛撲不破) | diān pū bù pò | solid; unbreakable; (fig.) irrefutable; incontrovertible; indisputable |
English words written with 颠
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.