| fān | to turn over/to flip over/to overturn/to translate/to decode |
| 翻 | to turn over to flip over to overturn |
| 翻一番 | double |
| 翻两番 | quadruple |
| 翻个儿 | turn over |
| 翻云覆雨 | to produce clouds and rain with a turn of the hand (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground tricksy and inconstant |
| 翻作 | to compose to write words to a tune |
| 翻供 | to retract testimony to withdraw a confession |
| 翻修 | to rebuild (house or road) to overhaul |
| 翻倒 | to overturn to overthrow to capsize |
| 翻到 | overset |
| 翻刻 | To carve a new plate according to the original version. |
| 翻动 | turn over (one's hand) |
| 翻印 | reprint to reissue to publish a new edition |
| 翻卷 | to spin to whirl around |
| 翻唱 | cover song to cover a song |
| 翻嘴 | to withdraw a remark to quarrel |
| 翻地 | to turn the soil |
| 翻场 | turn over the grain on the threshing ground |
| 翻墙 | lit. to climb over the wall fig. to breach the Great Firewall of China |
| 翻天 | overturn the heavens; shake the sky |