峰回路转 (fēng huí lù zhuǎn)

Character breakdown

• 峰 (fēng) · 10 strokes

• 回 (huí) · 6 strokes

  Depicts water rotating around in a circle.

• 路 (Lù) · 13 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 各 represents the sound.

• 转 (zhuǎi) · 8 strokes

  Simplified form of 轉. Phonosemantic compound. 车 represents the meaning and 專 represents the sound.

Usage

谁也没想到事情峰回路转，最后他竟然被录用了。

Nobody expected things to take such an unexpected turn; in the end he was actually hired.

Shuí yě méi xiǎng dào shì qíng fēng huí lù zhuǎn, zuì hòu tā jìng rán bèi lù yòng le.