回嗔作喜 — Chinese idiom
回嗔作喜
huí chēn zuò xǐ
Meaning
- to go from anger to happiness
Character by character
- 回huíto return, to turn around; a time
- 嗔chēnto be angry at, to rebuke, to scold
- 作zuòto make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
- 喜xǐto love; to enjoy, to be happy; joyful, glad
Idioms sharing a character
- 回天乏术 huí tiān fá shù
- 回心转意 huí xīn zhuǎn yì
- 回禄之灾 Huí lù zhī zāi
- 妙手回春 miào shǒu huí chūn
- 峰回路转 fēng huí lù zhuǎn
- 有去无回 yǒu qù wú huí
- 浪子回头 làng zǐ huí tóu
- 无力回天 wú lì huí tiān
- 起死回生 qǐ sǐ huí shēng
- 迂回曲折 yū huí qū zhé
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.