翻手為雲覆手變雨

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)

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to turn over / to flip over / to overturn / to rummage through / to translate / to decode / to double / to climb over or into / to cross

= + : In front of the anthill (an1), Frankenstein's Monster (f) is flipping over (翻) his tomatoes (番) very, very carefully. In order not to damage them he always turns them over on a few feathers (羽).
variant of 翻[fan1]

= + : In front of the anthill (an1), Frankenstein's Monster (f) is flipping over (翻) his tomatoes (番) very, very carefully. In order not to damage them he always turns them over on a few feathers (羽).
hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

Mnemonic symbol: a baseball glove. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is trying out his new baseball glove (手) in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
as (in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do / by (in the passive voice)
because of / for / to

= + : This one looks like a bird with crazy hair, and when I googled "bird with crazy hair", wow was I amazed how many birds with crazy hair there are! Penguins are birds with crazy hair! So let's use a penguin for this character.

= + : The crazy hair penguin wants to use the Eiffel Tower's bathroom, but because Willy Walrus just finished it stinks like hell. The first thing crazy hair penguin does is to press the button to release a heap of blossoms to make the air breathable again.
surname Yun / abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3]
cloud / CL:朵[duo3]

= + : Yu the Great (yu) had a little accident in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). She blew up her capacitor (二), and now there's smoke (云) everywhere. To be able to breathe, she puts on her fake nose (厶).
variant of 復|复[fu4] / to reply to a letter

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) wants to use the shrine of rejuvenation (復) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but someone has been using it for one hundred years already. First, Frieda uses knuckle dusters (覀) to knock the person over the head, but as he doesn't wake up Frieda looses her patience completely and just overthrows (覆) the whole shrine, throwing out the person.
to cover / to overflow / to overturn / to capsize

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) wants to use the shrine of rejuvenation (復) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but someone has been using it for one hundred years already. First, Frieda uses knuckle dusters (覀) to knock the person over the head, but as he doesn't wake up Frieda looses her patience completely and just overthrows (覆) the whole shrine, throwing out the person.
to change / to become different / to transform / to vary / rebellion

= + : In anthill's bathroom the also-ran is sparring with Brunhilde. In her mind she imagines changing into a boxing grizzly bear.

= + : I think 变 does look like a grizzly bear with a beret. 又 is the snout, and the two eyes are the two strokes of 八.
rain / CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]

= + + : It is raining inside of the space station, and because of zero gravity, it is raining in every direction. Yu the Great can't just hide under a ladder covered with petal leaves, she also has to tug herself in a few maps.
(literary) to rain / (of rain, snow etc) to fall / to precipitate / to wet

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