主客転倒 – vocab dash

主しゅ客きゃく転てん倒とう

Meanings

Noun

Suru verb

1. 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 (Yojijukugo)

Other spellings

主しゅ客きゃく顛てん倒とう

Other readings

主しゅ客かく転てん倒とう主しゅ客かく顛てん倒とう

Kanji used

主(one's) master 客guest 転roll around 倒collapse

Kanji in other spellings

顛turn around

Pitch accent

しゅきゃくてんとう

Composed of

主しゅ客きゃく

host and guest; the principal and the auxiliary; the principal and the subsidiary; the primary and the subordinate; subject and object

Noun

転てん倒とう

fall; falling down; tumbling; toppling (over); inversion; reversal; turning upside-down; getting upset; losing one's presence of mind

Noun