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Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「回天轉地」, explained here.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「回天轉地」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

It means turning the world around. A metaphor for changing the king’s mood or attitude.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huí tiān zhuǎn dì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wui4 tin1 jyun3 dei6/dei2

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