to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground; tricky and inconstant; to make love
trad. 翻雲覆雨
Also written 翻雲覆雨【fān yún fù yǔ】
Characters in this word
4翻
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to turn over, to flip over, to overturn, to rummage through, to translate, to decode, to double, to climb over or into, to cross
- Pinyin
- fān
- Strokes
- 18
- Frequency
- 3670 of 2500
云
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(classical) to say
- Pinyin
- yún
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 7285 of 2500
覆
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to cover, to overflow, to overturn, to capsize
- Pinyin
- fù
- Strokes
- 18
- Frequency
- 24295 of 2500
雨
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rain, CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]
- Pinyin
- yǔ
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 3828 of 2500