"Upheaval" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 动荡 | dòng dàng | unrest (social or political) / turmoil / upheaval / commotion |   |
| 乱 |  luàn | in confusion or disorder / in a confused state of mind / disorder / upheaval / riot / illicit sexual relations / to throw into disorder / to mix up / indiscriminate / random / arbitrary | |
| 动乱 | dòng luàn | turmoil / upheaval / unrest | |
| 婚变 | hūn biàn | marriage upheaval (infidelity, divorce etc) / marriage breakup | |
| 变天 | biàn tiān | to have a change of weather (esp. for the worse) / (fig.) to experience a major upheaval / to undergo sweeping change | |
| 变乱 | biàn luàn | turmoil / social upheaval | |
| 天崩地裂 | tiān bēng dì liè | heaven falls and earth rends (idiom) / rocked by a major disaster / fig. violent revolution / major social upheaval | |
| 日月重光 | rì yuè chóng guāng | the sun and moon shine once more / fig. things get back to normal after an upheaval | |
| 太平天国之乱 | Tài píng Tiān guó zhī Luàn | Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864), which ultimately failed but caused massive upheaval and weakened the Qing dynasty | |
| 气候激烈变化 | qì hòu jī liè biàn huà | climatic upheaval | |
| 离乱 | lí luàn | social upheaval caused by war or famine etc | |
