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颠倒黑白

diān dǎo hēi bái

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 顛倒黑白

颠倒黑白 (diān dǎo hēi bái) means "lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately; to misrepresent the facts; to invert right an". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 颠倒黑白 means

1. lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately
2. to misrepresent the facts
3. to invert right and wrong

The characters in 颠倒黑白

• 颠diāntop (of the head); apex; to fall forwards
• 倒dǎoto fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow
• 黑hēiblack; dark; sinister
• 白báiwhite; snowy; pure

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