lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain; very powerful and capable (idiom)
翻天覆地翻天覆地fan1 tian1 fu4 di4
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion; everything turned on its head
翻云覆雨翻雲覆雨fan1 yun2 fu4 yu3
to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground; tricky and inconstant; to make love
反复反覆fan3 fu4
repeatedly; over and over; to upend; unstable; to come and go; (of an illness) to return
反复无常反覆無常fan3 fu4 wu2 chang2
unstable; erratic; changeable; fickle
腐殖覆盖物腐殖覆蓋物fu3 zhi2 fu4 gai4 wu4
mulch
覆巢无完卵覆巢無完卵fu4 chao2 wu2 wan2 luan3
lit. when the nest overturns no egg remains intact; no member escapes unscathed from a family disaster (idiom)
覆巢之下无完卵覆巢之下無完卵fu4 chao2 zhi1 xia4 wu2 wan2 luan3
lit. when the nest is upset no egg is left intact (idiom); fig. when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed
覆叠覆疊fu4 die2
to overlap; to overlay; cascaded (thermodynamic cycle)
复迭覆迭fu4 die2
variant of 覆疊|覆叠
覆盖覆蓋fu4 gai4
to cover
覆盖率覆蓋率fu4 gai4 lv4
coverage
覆盖面覆蓋面fu4 gai4 mian4
coverage
覆核覆核fu4 he2
to review; to reexamine; review
覆灭覆滅fu4 mie4
destruction
覆膜覆膜fu4 mo2
membrane covering sth; coating
覆没覆沒fu4 mo4
annihilated; capsized
覆盆子覆盆子fu4 pen2 zi3
raspberry
复述覆述fu4 shu4
variant of 複述|复述
覆水难收覆水難收fu4 shui3 nan2 shou1
spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom); it's no use crying over spilt milk; what's done is done and can't be reversed; the damage is done; once divorced, there's no reuniting
lit. the cart in front overturns, a warning to the following cart (idiom); fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor; learn from past mistake; once bitten twice shy
倾覆傾覆qing1 fu4
to capsize; to collapse; to overturn; to overthrow; to undermine
全军覆没全軍覆沒quan2 jun1 fu4 mo4
total defeat of an army (idiom); fig. a complete wipeout
lit. water may keep the boat afloat but may also sink it (proverb); fig. the people can support a regime or overturn it; if sth is used properly, one can benefit from it, otherwise it can do harm; things can be double-edged
天翻地覆天翻地覆tian1 fan1 di4 fu4
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion; everything turned on its head
旋覆花旋覆花xuan2 fu4 hua1
(botany) convolvulvus; Flos Inulae (Chinese herb)
阴谋颠覆政府罪陰謀顛覆政府罪yin1 mou2 dian1 fu4 zheng4 fu3 zui4
the crime of conspiracy to overthrow the government
载舟覆舟載舟覆舟zai4 zhou1 fu4 zhou1
to carry a boat or to overturn a boat (idiom); fig. The people can support a regime or overturn it.