翻山越岭 — Chinese idiom
翻山越岭
fān shān yuè lǐng
Traditional: 翻山越嶺
Meaning
- lit. to pass over mountain ridges
- fig. hardships of the journey
Character by character
- 翻fānto upset, to capsize, to flip over
- 山shānmountain, hill, peak
- 越yuèto exceed, to surpass, to transcend
- 岭lǐngmountain ridge, mountain peak
Idioms sharing a character
- 人仰马翻 rén yǎng mǎ fān
- 天翻地覆 tiān fān dì fù
- 翻天覆地 fān tiān fù dì
- 翻江倒海 fān jiāng dǎo hǎi
- 翻空出奇 fān kōng chū qí
- 翻箱倒柜 fān xiāng dǎo guì
- 翻箱倒箧 fān xiāng dǎo qiè
- 翻老皇历 fān lǎo huáng lì
- 翻云覆雨 fān yún fù yǔ
- 咸鱼翻身 xián yú fān shēn
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