翻跟头
fān gēn tou
Pinyin

Definition

翻跟头
 - 
fān gēn tou
  1. to turn a somersault

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

跟
gēn
  1. 1 heel
  2. 2 to follow closely
  3. 3 to go with
  4. 4 (of a woman) to marry sb
  5. 5 with
  6. 6 compared with
  7. 7 to
  8. 8 towards
  9. 9 and (joining two nouns)
翻
fān
  1. 1 to turn over
  2. 2 to flip over
  3. 3 to overturn
  4. 4 to rummage through
  5. 5 to translate
  6. 6 to decode
  7. 7 to double
  8. 8 to climb over or into
  9. 9 to cross
翻来覆去
fān lái fù qù
  1. 1 to toss and turn (sleeplessly)
  2. 2 again and again
翻唱
fān chàng
  1. 1 cover song
  2. 2 to cover a song
翻滚
fān gǔn
  1. 1 to roll
  2. 2 to boil
翻炒
fān chǎo
  1. 1 to stir-fry
翻看
fān kàn
  1. 1 to browse
  2. 2 to look over (books)
翻箱倒柜
fān xiāng dǎo guì
  1. 1 to overturn trunks and boxes
  2. 2 to make a thorough search (idiom)
翻译
fān yì
  1. 1 to translate
  2. 2 to interpret
  3. 3 translator
  4. 4 interpreter
  5. 5 translation
  6. 6 interpretation
  7. 7 CL:個|个[gè],位[wèi],名[míng]
翻身
fān shēn
  1. 1 to turn over (when lying)
  2. 2 (fig.) to free oneself
  3. 3 to emancipate oneself
  4. 4 to bring about a change of one's fortunes
跟着
gēn zhe
  1. 1 to follow after
  2. 2 immediately afterwards
跟踪
gēn zōng
  1. 1 to follow sb's tracks
  2. 2 to tail
  3. 3 to shadow
  4. 4 tracking
跟随
gēn suí
  1. 1 to follow
跟风
gēn fēng
  1. 1 to go with the tide
  2. 2 to blindly follow the crowd
  3. 3 to follow the trend
高跟鞋
gāo gēn xié
  1. 1 high-heeled shoes
人仰马翻
rén yǎng mǎ fān
  1. 1 to suffer a crushing defeat (idiom)
  2. 2 in a pitiful state
  3. 3 in a complete mess
  4. 4 to roll (with laughter)
倾翻
qīng fān
  1. 1 to overturn
  2. 2 to topple
  3. 3 to tip
兜翻
dōu fān
  1. 1 to expose
  2. 2 to turn over
天翻地覆
tiān fān dì fù
  1. 1 sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion
  2. 2 everything turned on its head
后空翻
hòu kōng fān
  1. 1 backward somersault
  2. 2 backflip

Idioms (14)

人仰马翻
rén yǎng mǎ fān
  1. 1 to suffer a crushing defeat (idiom)
  2. 2 in a pitiful state
  3. 3 in a complete mess
  4. 4 to roll (with laughter)
天翻地覆
tiān fān dì fù
  1. 1 sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion
  2. 2 everything turned on its head
好男不跟女斗
hǎo nán bù gēn nu:3 dòu
  1. 1 a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)
翻天覆地
fān tiān fù dì
  1. 1 sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion
  2. 2 everything turned on its head
翻山越岭
fān shān yuè lǐng
  1. 1 to pass over mountains ridges (idiom); fig. hardships of the journey
翻手为云覆手变雨
fān shǒu wéi yún fù shǒu biàn yǔ
  1. 1 lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain
  2. 2 very powerful and capable (idiom)
翻江倒海
fān jiāng dǎo hǎi
  1. 1 lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. overwhelming
  3. 3 earth-shattering
  4. 4 in a spectacular mess
翻空出奇
fān kōng chū qí
  1. 1 to overturn empty convention, and display originality (idiom); new and different ideas
翻箱倒柜
fān xiāng dǎo guì
  1. 1 to overturn trunks and boxes
  2. 2 to make a thorough search (idiom)
翻箱倒箧
fān xiāng dǎo qiè
  1. 1 to overturn trunks and boxes
  2. 2 to make a thorough search (idiom)
翻老皇历
fān lǎo huáng lì
  1. 1 to look to the past for guidance (idiom)
翻云覆雨
fān yún fù yǔ
  1. 1 to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground
  2. 2 tricky and inconstant
  3. 3 to make love
阴沟里翻船
yīn gōu lǐ fān chuán
  1. 1 to meet with unexpected failure (idiom)
  2. 2 to fail miserably (where failure was not expected)
咸鱼翻身
xián yú fān shēn
  1. 1 lit. the salted fish turns over (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to experience a reversal of fortune

Sample Sentences

来来来，吃根香蕉，翻跟头！
lái lái lái ，chī gēn xiāngjiāo ，fān gēntou ！
Come on. Eat a banana. Do a flip!
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佳诚，别看你那么强壮，现在我只要用一根手指头碰你一下，你就会翻跟头。
Jiéchéng ，biékàn nǐ nàme qiángzhuàng ，xiànzài wǒ zhī yào yòng yī gēn shǒuzhǐtou pèng nǐ yīxià ，nǐ jiù huì fāngēntóu 。
Jiacheng, even though you're so strong, right now all I have to do is bump you with my fingertip and you'll do a somersault.
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