翻案

Chinese

		flit about; translate; turn over	(legal) case; incident; record (legal) case; incident; record; file; table
trad. (翻案)		翻	案
simp. #(翻案)		翻	案

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fān'àn

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢ ㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan¹ on³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoan-àn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fān'àn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢ ㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fan-àn
    • Wade–Giles: fan¹-an⁴
    • Yale: fān-àn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fanann
    • Palladius: фаньань (fanʹanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän⁵⁵ ˀän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faan¹ on³
    • Yale: fāan on
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan¹ on³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan¹ on³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn⁵⁵ ɔːn³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoan-àn
    • Tâi-lô: huan-àn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoan'axn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /huan⁴⁴⁻²² an²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /huan³³ an⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /huan⁴⁴⁻²² an²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /huan⁴⁴⁻³³ an¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /huan⁴⁴⁻³³ an²¹/

Verb

翻案

1. to reverse a verdict

   • 有些人不瞭解我們今天的政策適合於今天的情況，過去的政策適合於過去的情況，想利用今天的政策去翻過去的案，想否定過去肅反工作的巨大成績，這是完全錯誤的，這是人民群眾所不允許的。 [MSC, trad.]
     有些人不了解我们今天的政策适合于今天的情况，过去的政策适合于过去的情况，想利用今天的政策去翻过去的案，想否定过去肃反工作的巨大成绩，这是完全错误的，这是人民群众所不允许的。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1957, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《關於正確處理人民內部矛盾的問題》 (On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Yǒuxiē rén bù liǎojiě wǒmen jīntiān de zhèngcè shìhé yú jīntiān de qíngkuàng, guòqù de zhèngcè shìhé yú guòqù de qíngkuàng, xiǎng lìyòng jīntiān de zhèngcè qù fān guòqù de àn, xiǎng fǒudìng guòqù sùfǎn gōngzuò de jùdà chéngjì, zhè shì wánquán cuòwù de, zhè shì rénmín qúnzhòng suǒ bù yǔnxǔ de. [Pinyin]

     Because of failure to understand that our present policy fits the present situation and our past policy fitted the past situation, some people want to make use of the present policy to reverse past decisions and to negate the tremendous success we achieved in eliminating counter-revolutionaries.

2. to present different views on a historical person or verdict