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天旋地转

tiān xuán dì zhuàn

4-character word Traditional 天旋地轉

What 天旋地转 means

1. the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom); giddy with one's head spinning
2. fig. huge changes in the world

The characters in 天旋地转

• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 旋xuánto revolve; a loop; a circle
• 地dìearth; ground; field
• 转zhuǎnto turn; to change direction; to transfer

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