阴沟里翻船 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 陰溝裡翻船 yīngōulǐfānchuán ㄧㄣ ㄍㄡ ㄌㄧˇ ㄈㄢ ㄔㄨㄢˊ to meet with unexpected failure (idiom) to fail miserably (where failure was not expected) Character by character 阴(yīn)surname Yin 沟(gōu)ditch 里(lǐ)lining 翻(fān)turn over 船(chuán)boat A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0