lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering; a radical change
trad. 旋乾轉坤
Also written 旋乾轉坤【xuán qián zhuǎn kūn】
Characters in this word
4旋
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to revolve, a loop, a circle
- Pinyin
- xuán
- Strokes
- 11
乾
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
old variant of 乾[qian2]
- Pinyin
- qián
- Traditional
- 乹
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 8595 of 2500
转
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
see 轉文|转文[zhuai3 wen2]
- Pinyin
- zhuǎi
- Traditional
- 轉
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 1889 of 2500
坤
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing earth, female principle, ☷, ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)
- Pinyin
- kūn
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 19533 of 2500