山不转水转 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 山不轉水轉 shānbùzhuànshuǐzhuàn ㄕㄢ ㄅㄨˋ ㄓㄨㄢˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄓㄨㄢˋ if the mountain won't move, the river will go around it (idiom) lit. there's always a way forward, even when faced with obstacles fig. Character by character 山(shān)surname Shan 不(bù)no 转(zhuàn)revolve 水(shuǐ)surname Shui 转(zhuàn)revolve A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0