
| diān | top (of the head)/apex/to fall forwards/inverted/to jolt |
| 颠 | top (of the head) apex to fall forwards |
| 颠三倒四 | confused disorderly incoherent |
| 颠倒 | to turn upside-down to reverse back-to-front |
| 颠倒是非 | to invert right and wrong |
| 颠倒过来 | to invert |
| 颠倒错乱 | topsy-turvy |
| 颠倒黑白 | lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately to misrepresent the facts to invert right and wrong |
| 颠儿面 | to lose face |
| 颠峰 | the peak (of his power) |
| 颠扑不破 | solid irrefutable incontrovertible |
| 颠末 | from the beginning to the end |
| 颠来倒去 | to harp on over and over merely ring changes on a few terms |
| 颠沛 | destitute difficulty hardship |
| 颠沛流离 | homeless and miserable (idiom); to wander about in a desperate plight to drift |
| 颠狂 | demented |
| 颠簸 | to shake to jolt to bump |
| 颠茄 | deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) |
| 颠茄碱 | [Medicine] atropine |
| 颠茄草 | belladonna |
| 颠覆 | to topple (i.e. knock over) to capsize fig. to overturn (a regime, by plotting or subversion) |