覆 - fù - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom); it's no use crying over spilt milk; what's done is done and can't be reversed; the damage is done; once divorced, there's no reuniting

覆巢无完卵

fù cháo wú wán luǎn

(lit.) when the nest overturns no egg remains intact; no member escapes unscathed from a family disaster (idiom)

覆巢之下无完卵

fù cháo zhī xià wú wán luǎn

(lit.) when the nest is upset no egg is left intact (idiom); (fig.) when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed

全军覆没

quán jūn fù mò

total defeat of an army (idiom); fig. a complete wipe-out

天翻地覆

tiān fān dì fù

sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion; everything turned on its head

翻云覆雨

fān yún fù yǔ

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

翻天覆地

fān tiān fù dì

sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion; everything turned on its head

载舟覆舟

zài zhōu fù zhōu

to carry a boat or to overturn a boat (idiom); fig. The people can support a regime or overturn it.

翻手为云覆手变雨

fān shǒu wéi yún fù shǒu biàn yǔ

(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)

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