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to translate / to interpret / translator / interpreter / translation / interpretation / CL: 個|个, ,
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *翻* | 翻* | *翻
to turn over / to flip over / to overturn / to rummage through / to translate / to decode / to double / to climb over or into / to cross
HSK 4
suddenly and completely (realize, change one's strategy etc) / also written 幡然
lit. to pass over mountain ridges (idiom) / fig. hardships of the journey
to double / to increase by a certain number of times
HSK 7-9
to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground / tricky and inconstant / to make love
lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess
to fall out with sb and become hostile
to roll / to turn over / to invert / to flip
lit. to climb over the wall / fig. to breach the Great Firewall of China
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head
HSK 7-9
to double
lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain / very powerful and capable (idiom)
to plow; to turn the soil
to cross / to surmount / to transcend
turndown collar / lapel
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *翻* | 翻* | *翻
variant of
HSK 4
to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds
translator (of writings)
(of a vehicle) to flip over / (fig.) to go wrong; to flop
to fall out with sb; to become hostile
to browse / to look over (books)
to stir-fry
to overturn / to turn upside down
to thumb through / to flip through (a book)
to toss and turn (sleeplessly) / again and again
HSK 7-9
copy of DVD / pirate DVD
to turn over / to transform
to tumble / to turn a somersault
to make a photographic reproduction of an image or document etc; a reproduction / to remake a movie or TV series; a remake / to adapt (a novel etc) as a movie; an adaptation
flip-top (mobile phone, handbag etc) / to rebuild / to renovate
to turn over (when lying) / (fig.) to free oneself / to emancipate oneself / to bring about a change of one's fortunes
to reprint / reproduction / pirate copy / (fig.) imitation / carbon copy / clone
to browse and select / to glance through and check
to rebuild / to renovate
(bird species of China) ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
(loanword) fondant
to reprint (generally without authorization)
to renege / to go back (on a deal) / to back out (of a promise)
to reverse a verdict / to present different views on a historical person or verdict
to make a comeback / (of a doctor's assessment of the gender of a fetus) to turn out to be wrong
to overturn empty convention, and display originality (idiom); new and different ideas
translator / interpreter
(of water, waves, emotions etc) to churn; to surge; to seethe / to somersault; to tumble; to flip / to rummage; to turn things over repeatedly
to roll / to boil
to roll one's eyes
to capsize / (fig.) to suffer a setback or defeat
to revamp / a face-lift / to retread (a tire) / to refurbish (old clothes) / newly emerging
to turn a page / (fig.) to turn over a new leaf
(of a stock or index) to turn positive / to regain popularity
to rebuild (house or road) / to overhaul
to overturn trunks and boxes / to make a thorough search (idiom)
to cover (a previously recorded song) / cover version (of a song)
Fanziquan - "Overturning Fist" - Martial Art
to spin / to whirl around
to open up
to turn a somersault
to overturn / to overthrow / to capsize / to collapse
to win back one's money (gambling etc)
to rummage / to look through / to leaf through
to roll over and over (of billows or clouds)
to look to the past for guidance (idiom)
to flip a table over (in a fit of anger) / (at a restaurant) to turn over a table (i.e. to complete a cycle from the seating of one group of diners until the arrival of another group at the same table)
dump truck
to increase by 100%; to double
to turn a somersault
to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds
to rummage through / to turn everything over / to ransack
to withdraw a remark / to quarrel
to capsize and sink
to overturn trunks and boxes / to make a thorough search (idiom)
to compose / to write words to a tune
to flip over / to turn (a page) / to scroll (an electronic document) / to stir (food in a pot etc) / to move things about / to rummage
to retract a confession or testimony
table turnover rate (in a restaurant)
to create an image or video by copying an existing one (e.g. taking a photo of a picture in a magazine, recording a video playing on a monitor, taking a screenshot of an online photo) / to remake (a film or TV show)
to see the error of one's ways / to make a clean break with one's past
to overturn (a vehicle); to capsize; to turn upside down / to change completely
to stir up / to turn over
ocean sunfish (Mola mola)


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