颠倒是非 — Chinese idiom
颠倒是非
diān dǎo shì fēi
Traditional: 顛倒是非
Meaning
- to distort right and wrong; to deliberately mislead
Character by character
- 颠diānpeak, summit, top; to upset
- 倒dǎoto collapse, to fall over; to lie down
- 是shìto be; indeed, right, yes; okay
- 非fēinot, negative, non-; to oppose
Idioms sharing a character
- 流离颠沛 liú lí diān pèi
- 神魂颠倒 shén hún diān dǎo
- 颠倒黑白 diān dǎo hēi bái
- 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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