颠沛流离 — Chinese idiom
颠沛流离
diān pèi liú lí
Traditional: 顛沛流離
Meaning
- homeless and miserable ; to wander about in a desperate plight
- to drift
Character by character
- 颠diānpeak, summit, top; to upset
- 沛pèiabundant, copious, full
- 流liúto flow, to drift, to circulate; class
- 离lírare beast; strange; elegant
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
- 颠倒黑白 diān dǎo hēi bái
- 付之东流 fù zhī dōng liú
- 口碑流传 kǒu bēi liú chuán
- 同流合污 tóng liú hé wū
- 对答如流 duì dá rú liú
- 屁滚尿流 pì gǔn niào liú
- 川流不息 chuān liú bù xī
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