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天翻地覆

tiān fān dì fù

4-character word

What 天翻地覆 means

1. sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion
2. everything turned on its head

The characters in 天翻地覆

• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 翻fānto turn over; to flip over; to overturn
• 地dìearth; ground; field
• 覆fùto cover; to overflow; to overturn

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