diān dǎo hēi bái

Traditional: 顛倒黑白

颠倒黑白 (diān dǎo hēi bái) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately; to misrepresent the facts; to invert right and wrong”.

Meanings

  1. 1lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately
  2. 2to misrepresent the facts
  3. 3to invert right and wrong

Characters in 颠倒黑白

颠diān · top (of the head)倒dǎo · to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally黑hēi · black白bái · white

Related words

明白clear; obvious; unequivocal倒to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally倒to invert; to place upside down or frontside back黑black黑short name for Heilongjiang 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]白痴idiocy白white白surname Bai黑人black person白人white man or woman; Caucasian黑暗dark坦白honest

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