| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 七顛八起 | ななころびやおき, しちてんはっき | the vicissitudes of life, ups and downs in life, always rising after a fall or repeated failures |
| 顛覆 | てんぷく | capsizing, overturn, turning over, upset; overthrow (e.g. a government) |
| 顛落 | てんらく | fall, degradation, slump, spill |
| 顛末 | てんまつ | circumstance, facts, details |
| 主客顛倒 | しゅかくてんとう | reversing the order of (relative) importance (of), putting the cart before the horse, the tables being turned, mistaking the insignificant for the essential, mistaking the means for the end |
| 本末顛倒 | ほんまつてんとう | failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of), putting the cart before the horse, mistaking the cause for the end, mistaking the insignificant for the essential, getting one's priorities backwards |
| 七顛八倒 | しちてんばっとう, しってんばっとう | tossing oneself about in great pain, writhing in agony |
| 顛倒 | てんとう | falling down, tumbling, overturning, turning over; reversing, inverting, inversion; getting upset |
| 山顛 | さんてん | mountaintop, summit |
| 造次顛沛 | ぞうじてんぱい | (a) moment |
