颠倒黑白 — Chinese idiom
颠倒黑白
diān dǎo hēi bái
Traditional: 顛倒黑白
Meaning
- lit. to invert black and white ; to distort the truth deliberately
- to misrepresent the facts
- to invert right and wrong
Character by character
- 颠diānpeak, summit, top; to upset
- 倒dǎoto collapse, to fall over; to lie down
- 黑hēiblack; dark; evil, sinister
- 白báiwhite; clear, pure, unblemished; bright
Idioms sharing a character
- 流离颠沛 liú lí diān pèi
- 神魂颠倒 shén hún diān dǎo
- 颠倒是非 diān dǎo shì fēi
- 颠沛流离 diān pèi liú lí
- 倒悬之危 dào xuán zhī wēi
- 倒悬之急 dào xuán zhī jí
- 倒悬之苦 dào xuán zhī kǔ
- 倒打一耙 dào dǎ yī pá
- 倒持泰阿 dào chí Tài ē
- 倒行逆施 dào xíng nì shī
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