Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「顛倒黑白」.
The idiom 「顛倒黑白」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.
Call black white and white black. A metaphor for distorting facts and confusing right and wrong.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
diān dǎo hēi bái
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
din1 dou2 hak1 baak6
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