旋乾转坤 — Chinese idiom
旋乾转坤
xuán qián zhuǎn kūn
Traditional: 旋乾轉坤
Meaning
- lit. overturning heaven and earth ; earth-shattering
- a radical change
Character by character
- 旋xuánto revolve, to orbit, to return
- 乾qiánarid, dry; to fertilize; to penetrate; heavenly ge
- 转zhuǎnto move, to convey; to turn, to revolve, to circle
- 坤kūnearth; feminine
Idioms sharing a character
- 天旋地转 tiān xuán dì zhuàn
- 盘旋曲折 pán xuán qū zhé
- 祸不旋踵 huò bù xuán zhǒng
- 扭转乾坤 niǔ zhuǎn qián kūn
- 朝乾夕惕 zhāo qián xī tì
- 回心转意 huí xīn zhuǎn yì
- 峰回路转 fēng huí lù zhuǎn
- 急转直下 jí zhuǎn zhí xià
- 时来运转 shí lái yùn zhuǎn
- 珠流璧转 zhū liú bì zhuǎn
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