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  *倒* | 倒* | *倒
to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit
HSK 2
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *倒* | 倒* | *倒
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
HSK 2
to go bankrupt / to close down
HSK 4
to change buses, trains etc
HSK 4
to reverse (a vehicle) / to drive backwards
HSK 4
contrary to what one might expect / actually / contrariwise / why don't you
HSK 5
to fall down / to slip and fall / to throw sb to the ground
HSK 5
to count backwards (from 10 down to 0) / to count down / from the bottom (lines on a page) / from the back (rows of seats)
HSK 7-9
to collapse (of building) / to topple over
HSK 7-9
to resell at a profit / to speculate
HSK 7-9
to turn upside down / to reverse / back to front / confused / deranged / crazy
HSK 7-9
to overthrow / to knock down / Down with ... !
HSK 7-9
but on the contrary / but expectedly
HSK 7-9
to collapse / to topple over
HSK 7-9
to overwhelm / to overpower / overwhelming
HSK 7-9
to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious
HSK 7-9
to have bad luck / to be out of luck
HSK 7-9
to count down / countdown
HSK 7-9
inverse number / reciprocal (math.)
lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 豬八戒|猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记; fig. to counterattack / to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)
to fall back / to go in reverse
to lie down / to drop dead
to kneel down / to sink to one's knees / to grovel
to overturn trunks and boxes / to make a thorough search (idiom)
troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse
lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance
saltwater intrusion
down on one's luck; in straitened circumstances; disappointed; frustrated
confused / disorderly / incoherent
to overturn / to overthrow / to capsize / to collapse
When the tree topples the monkeys scatter. (idiom); fig. an opportunist abandons an unfavorable cause / Rats leave a sinking ship.
to turn upside down / to upend
lit. to hang upside down / fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods) / to borrow more than one can ever repay
to move / to shift / to exchange / to buy and sell / peddling
lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love / fascinated / captivated
to invert right and wrong
roly-poly toy
to push over / to overthrow
to fall to the ground
instead / on the contrary / contrary (to expectations)
to topple over / to greatly admire
to dump / to pour / to empty out
to tumble / to fall / fig. to suffer a reverse (in politics or business)
inverted image / reversed image (e.g. upside down)
a handstand / to turn upside down / to stand on one's head / upside down
to faint
to fall dead
reverse order / inverted order
overwhelming
to make an about-turn; to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc; to turn things on their head
(of time, or a video clip etc) to run in reverse / Taiwan pr. [dao4zhuan3]
to knock down / knocked down
lit. to hang upside down / fig. in dire straits
dead loan / bad debts / to refuse to pay loan
to drive in reverse / fig. to take a backward step / retrogressive / trying to turn the clock back
to bend with the wind
to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side / to support unconditionally
to be entirely on one side / one-sided / lopsided / partisan / overwhelmingly on one side
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom) / fig. everybody hits a man who is down
to fall down
to lie down / to die
lit. the east wind prevails over the west wind (idiom) / fig. one side prevails over the other / progressive ideas prevail over reactionary ones
to lie down / to drop to the ground
to be frightened
to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)
(coll.) a profiteer / (business) wheeler-dealer
to transfer grain from a store (e.g. to sun it) / voice breaking (of male opera singer in puberty)
(optics) inverted image
to gasp (in surprise, dismay, fright etc)
to start a narrative at the end (or midway), then proceed chronologically from the beginning / to flash back / flashback (in a novel, movie etc)
to reverse cause and effect / to put the horse before the cart
to engage in speculation and profiteering
cold snap during the spring
to have sexual intercourse
to take turns / to rotate (responsibility)
to collapse / to crash down / to fall down in a heap
to split one's sides laughing
to sustain loss in trade
(cinema) to rewind (a reel) / (photography) to rewind (a roll of film)
to trip / to stumble
to lose money instead of being paid (i.e. sb should pay me, but is actually taking my money)
to change sides in a war / turncoat
to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the unimportant and neglect the important) / lacking a sense of perspective / to put the cart before the horse
to pull down / (coll.) to let it go; to drop it
to reflect (producing an inverted image)
to knock over; to knock down; to lay flat; to fell; to bring down
to have rotten luck (stronger version of 倒霉)
lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius); to save the people from dire straits
rotation of crops
to take a fall
mischief / to make trouble
lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess
(linguistics) to invert (word order)
handstand
to turn over manure / fig. to offend others by endlessly repeating unpleasant remarks
(of cows) to ruminate
to be more of a hindrance than a help
to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate
to invert

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