扭转乾坤 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 扭轉乾坤 niǔzhuǎnqiánkūn ㄋㄧㄡˇ ㄓㄨㄢˇ ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄎㄨㄣ lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom) fig. to change the course of events to turn things around Character by character 扭(niǔ)turn 转(zhuǎn)turn 乾(qián)dry 坤(kūn)one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦 bāguà, symbolizing earth A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0