咸鱼翻身 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 鹹魚翻身 xiányúfānshēn ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄩˊ ㄈㄢ ㄕㄣ lit. the salted fish turns over (idiom) fig. to experience a reversal of fortune Character by character 咸(xián)surname Xian 鱼(yú)surname Yu 翻(fān)turn over 身(shēn)body A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0