扭转乾坤 — Chinese idiom
扭转乾坤
niǔ zhuǎn qián kūn
Traditional: 扭轉乾坤
Meaning
- lit. to upend heaven and earth
- fig. to change the course of events
- to turn things around
Character by character
- 扭niǔto turn, to twist, to wrench; to grasp, to seize
- 转zhuǎnto move, to convey; to turn, to revolve, to circle
- 乾qiánarid, dry; to fertilize; to penetrate; heavenly ge
- 坤kūnearth; feminine
Idioms sharing a character
- 七扭八歪 qī niǔ bā wāi
- 扭亏为盈 niǔ kuī wéi yíng
- 回心转意 huí xīn zhuǎn yì
- 天旋地转 tiān xuán dì zhuàn
- 峰回路转 fēng huí lù zhuǎn
- 急转直下 jí zhuǎn zhí xià
- 旋乾转坤 xuán qián zhuǎn kūn
- 时来运转 shí lái yùn zhuǎn
- 珠流璧转 zhū liú bì zhuǎn
- 目不转睛 mù bù zhuǎn jīng
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