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翻天覆地

fāntiānfùdì

earth-shaking; tremendous

HSK 7 · Topic “Transformation and reform”
A person gazes up at a tall tower beside an old house
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Characters in this word

翻 fān

Strokes
18
Radical
羽 — feather, plume
Made of
番 to take turns, to repeat 羽 feather, plume
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

天 tiān

Strokes
4
Radical
大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
Made of
一 one 大 big, great, vast, high, deep
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

覆 fù

Strokes
18
Radical
覀 — west, western, westward
Made of
覀 west, western, westward 復 again, repeatedly
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 覆

地 de

Strokes
6
Radical
土 — soil, earth
Made of
土 soil, earth 也 also, too
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 互联网普及以后，普通人获取资讯的方式发生了翻天覆地的变化。 Hùliánwǎng pǔjí yǐhòu, pǔtōng rén huòqǔ zīxùn de fāngshì fāshēng le fān tiān fù dì de biànhuà. After the internet became widespread, ordinary people's ways of obtaining information changed dramatically.
  • 这座城市十年间发生了翻天覆地的变化。 Zhè zuò chéngshì shí nián jiān fāshēng le fāntiān fùdì de biànhuà. This city has changed dramatically over ten years.
  • 这几年家乡翻天覆地地变了样，我几乎认不出来了。 Zhè jǐ nián jiāxiāng fāntiān fùdì de biàn le yàng, wǒ jīhū rèn bù chūlái le. My hometown has been transformed in recent years, and I can hardly recognise it.

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