顛倒黑白

Chinese

		to turn upside-down; to reverse; to be topsy-turvy	black and white; right and wrong; good and evil
trad. (顛倒黑白)		顛倒	黑白
simp. (颠倒黑白)		颠倒	黑白
Literally: “to invert black and white”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diāndǎohēibái

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢ ㄉㄠˇ ㄏㄟ ㄅㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): din¹ dou² hak¹ baak⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diāndǎohēibái
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢ ㄉㄠˇ ㄏㄟ ㄅㄞˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diandǎoheibái
    • Wade–Giles: tien¹-tao³-hei¹-pai²
    • Yale: dyān-dǎu-hēi-bái
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diandaoheibair
    • Palladius: дяньдаохэйбай (djanʹdaoxɛjbaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛn⁵⁵ tɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xeɪ̯⁵⁵ paɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: din¹ dou² hak¹ baak⁶
    • Yale: dīn dóu hāk baahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: din¹ dou² hak⁷ baak⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: din¹ dou² heg¹ bag⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːn⁵⁵ tou̯³⁵ hɐk̚⁵ paːk̚²/

Idiom

顛倒黑白

1. to confuse right and wrong; to confound right with wrong; to distort the truth; to misrepresent the facts

Synonyms

• 混淆黑白
• 顛倒是非／颠倒是非 (diāndǎoshìfēi)
• 是非顛倒／是非颠倒 (shìfēidiāndǎo)
• 混淆是非 (hùnxiáo shìfēi)