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翻天覆地

fān tiān fù dì

4-character word

What 翻天覆地 means

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

The characters in 翻天覆地

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

Example sentences

• 相比二十年前的日本，现在的日本有了翻天覆地的变化。
  Xiāngbǐ èr shí nián qián de Rìběn, xiànzài de Rìběn yǒule fāntiān-fùdì de biànhuà.
  Japan is now very different from what it was twenty years ago.