Chinese symbol for “upturned”

底朝天

dǐ cháo tiān

upside down; upturned

The closest CC-CEDICT match for upturned is 底朝天 (dǐ cháo tiān), defined as: upside down; upturned.

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Characters and stroke order

底 dǐ

bottom, underside; below, underneath

radical 53 ⼴ · 8 strokes

朝 cháo

to face; direct, facing; dynasty; morning

radical 74 ⽉ · 12 strokes

天 tiān

sky, heaven; god, celestial

radical 37 ⼤ · 4 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 底朝天.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
到底	dào dǐ	finally; in the end
彻底 (徹底)	chè dǐ	thorough; thoroughly
年底	nián dǐ	end of the year
月底	yuè dǐ	end of the month
底下	dǐ xia	the location below sth; afterwards
海底	hǎi dǐ	seabed; seafloor; bottom of the ocean
王朝	wáng cháo	dynasty
朝廷	cháo tíng	court; imperial household
今天	jīn tiān	today; the present time; now

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.