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)

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]

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

variant of 翻[fan1]

rain / CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]

(literary) to rain / (of rain, snow etc) to fall / to precipitate / to wet

variant of 復|复[fu4] / to reply to a letter

to cover / to overflow / to overturn / to capsize

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

surname Yun / abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3]

cloud / CL:朵[duo3]

to change / to become different / to transform / to vary / rebellion