否极泰来
pǐ jí tài lái
Pinyin

Definition

否极泰来
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pǐ jí tài lái
  1. extreme sorrow turns to joy (idiom)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

fǒu zé
  1. 1 if not
  2. 2 otherwise
  3. 3 else
  4. 4 or else
shì fǒu
  1. 1 whether (or not)
  2. 2 if
  3. 3 is or isn't
kě fǒu
  1. 1 is it possible or not?
fǒu
  1. 1 to negate
  2. 2 to deny
  3. 3 not
fǒu dìng
  1. 1 to negate
  2. 2 to deny
  3. 3 to reject
  4. 4 negative (answer)
  5. 5 negation
fǒu rèn
  1. 1 to declare to be untrue
  2. 2 to deny
Tài
  1. 1 Mt Tai 泰山[Tài Shān] in Shandong
  2. 2 abbr. for Thailand
Tài lè
  1. 1 Taylor (name)
Tài guó
  1. 1 Thailand
  2. 2 Thai
Tài tǎn ní kè Hào
  1. 1 RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912
Tài ān
  1. 1 Tai'an city prefecture level city in Shandong
  2. 2 Tai'an township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县[Miáo lì xiàn], northwest Taiwan
Tài Shān
  1. 1 Mt Tai in Shandong, eastern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wǔ yuè]
Tài gē ěr
  1. 1 Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer
tài rán
  1. 1 calm
  2. 2 self-composed
néng fǒu
  1. 1 whether or not
  2. 2 can it or can't it
  3. 3 is it possible?
yǔ fǒu
  1. 1 whether or not (at the end of a phrase)
bù zhì kě fǒu
  1. 1 decline to comment
  2. 2 not express an opinion
  3. 3 be noncommittal
  4. 4 hedge
Fú ěr tài
  1. 1 Voltaire (1694-1778), Enlightenment philosopher
Jiā tài luó ní yà
  1. 1 Catalonia
pǐ jí tài lái
  1. 1 extreme sorrow turns to joy (idiom)

Idioms (10)

不识泰山
bù shí Tài Shān
  1. 1 can't recognize Mt Taishan (idiom); fig. not to recognize a famous person
否极泰来
pǐ jí tài lái
  1. 1 extreme sorrow turns to joy (idiom)
国泰民安
guó tài mín ān
  1. 1 the country prospers, the people at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
有眼不识泰山
yǒu yǎn bù shí Tài Shān
  1. 1 lit. to have eyes but fail to recognize Mt Tai (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to fail to recognize sb important or sb's great talent
  3. 3 to be blind to the fact
泰山北斗
Tài shān Běi dǒu
  1. 1 as weighty as Mt Tai, as brilliant as the Big Dipper (idiom); a giant among men
泰然自若
tài rán zì ruò
  1. 1 cool and collected (idiom); showing no sign of nerves
  2. 2 perfectly composed
泰然处之
tài rán chǔ zhī
  1. 1 to handle the situation calmly (idiom)
  2. 2 unruffled
  3. 3 to treat the situation lightly
重于泰山
zhòng yú Tài Shān
  1. 1 heavier than Mt Tai (idiom); fig. extremely serious matter
鸿毛泰山
hóng máo Tài Shān
  1. 1 lit. light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another
鸿毛泰岱
hóng máo tài dài
  1. 1 light as a goose feather, heavy as Mt Tai (idiom); of no consequence to one person, a matter of life or death to another

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