力挽狂澜 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 力挽狂瀾 lìwǎnkuánglán ㄌㄧˋ ㄨㄢˇ ㄎㄨㄤˊ ㄌㄢˊ 男 女 to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom) fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis Character by character 力(lì)power 挽(wǎn)pull 狂(kuáng)mad 澜(lán)swelling water Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0