"Contrary" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 相反 | xiāng fǎn | opposite / contrary |   |
| 相背 | xiāng bèi | contrary / opposite | |
| 反 |  fǎn | contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system | |
| 倒反 | dào fǎn | instead / on the contrary / contrary (to expectations) | |
| 悖逆 | bèi nì | contrary | |
| 抢 | qiāng | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage) / opposite in direction / contrary | |
| 逆 | nì | contrary / opposite / backwards / to go against / to oppose / to betray / to rebel | |
| 捂 | wǔ | to enclose / to cover with the hand (one's eyes, nose or ears) / to cover up (an affair) / contrary / to contradict | |
| 拗 | ào | (bound form) intractable / contrary / disobedient | |
| 拗 | niù | stubborn / perverse / contrary | |
| 戗 | qiāng | contrary / pushing against / bump / knock / used as equivalent for 搶|抢[qiang1] | |
| 蘁 | wù | to disobey / contrary / against / to go against / to violate / obscure character, possibly variant of 惡|恶[e4] | |
| 拧巴 | nǐng ba | (dialect) awkward / uncomfortable / (dialect) obstinate / contrary / argumentative | |
| 乖忤 | guāi wǔ | stubborn / contrary / disobedient | |
| 乖迕 | guāi wǔ | stubborn / contrary / disobedient | |
| 相悖 | xiāng bèi | contrary / opposite / to run counter to | |
| 反而 | fǎn ér | on the contrary / instead | |
| 倒是 | dào shi | contrary to what one might expect / actually / contrariwise / why don't you | |
| 违背 | wéi bèi | to go against / to be contrary to / to violate | |
| 反倒 | fǎn dào | but on the contrary / but expectedly | |
| 意料之外 | yì liào zhī wài | (idiom) contrary to expectation / unexpected | |
| 事与愿违 | shì yǔ yuàn wéi | things turn out contrary to the way one wishes (idiom) | |
| 逆风 | nì fēng | to go against the wind / contrary wind / a headwind | |
| 倒 | dào | to invert / to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out / to dump / inverted / upside down / reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect / but / yet | |
| 偏 | piān | to lean / to slant / oblique / prejudiced / to deviate from average / to stray from the intended line / stubbornly / contrary to expectations | |
| 乖 | guāi | (of a child) obedient, well-behaved / clever / shrewd / alert / perverse / contrary to reason / irregular / abnormal | |
| 不期然而然 | bù qī rán ér rán | happen unexpectedly / turn out contrary to one's expectations | |
| 折节读书 | zhé jié dú shū | to start reading furiously, contrary to previous habit (idiom) | |
| 彆 | biè | contrary / difficult / awkward | |
| 佷 | hěn | to act contrary to | |
| 偏宕 | piān dàng | extremely (stubborn, contrary, disobedient etc) | |
| 却倒 | què dào | but on the contrary / but unexpectedly | |
| 相反证据 | evidence to the contrary | | |
| 跑票 | pǎo piào | to vote against the party line / to vote contrary to one's promise | |
| 一反往常 | yī fǎn wǎng cháng | contrary to usual / unlike what usually happens | |
| 拂逆 | fú nì | to go against / to do sth contrary to (sb's wishes) | |
| 一反往常 | yī fǎn - wǎng cháng | (idiom) contrary to what usually happens | |
| 与狐谋皮 | yǔ hú - móu pí | (idiom) to ask sb to act contrary to their own interests (original form of the expression 與虎謀皮|与虎谋皮[yu3hu3-mou2pi2]) | |
| 与虎谋皮 | yǔ hǔ - móu pí | lit. to negotiate with a tiger for its pelt (idiom) / fig. to ask sb to act contrary to their own interests | |
