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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「旋乾轉坤」, with more below.

Today’s idiom is 「旋乾轉坤」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.

Turn the world upside down. A metaphor for fundamentally changing the social outlook or existing situation. It also means that a person has great courage.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xuán qián zhuǎn kūn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

syun4 gon1 jyun3 kwan1

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