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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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
contrary to what one might expect / actually / contrariwise / why don't you
HSK 5
to change buses, trains etc
HSK 4
to reverse (a vehicle) / to drive backwards
HSK 4
to collapse / to topple over
HSK 7-9
to fall down / to slip and fall / to throw sb to the ground
HSK 5
the north-facing room opposite the master's in a siheyuan 四合院
to count down / countdown
HSK 7-9
to have bad luck / to be out of luck
HSK 7-9
overwhelming
to collapse (of building) / to topple over
HSK 7-9
to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side / to support unconditionally
to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
to fall to the ground
to overwhelm / to overpower / overwhelming
HSK 7-9
to knock down / knocked down
to overthrow / to knock down / Down with ... !
HSK 7-9
to resell at a profit / to speculate
HSK 7-9
three-shift system (work rostering)
to have bad luck
to reverse cause and effect / to put the horse before the cart
locked in (with the door locked from the outside)
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 take a fall
to turn upside down / to reverse / back to front / confused / deranged / crazy
HSK 7-9
to lie down
Timber! (lumberjack's warning call)
backwards; in reverse; upside down
rewind (media player)
(linguistics) inverted sentence
down on one's luck; in straitened circumstances; disappointed; frustrated
to move / to shift / to exchange / to buy and sell / peddling
to start a narrative at the end (or midway), then proceed chronologically from the beginning / to flash back / flashback (in a novel, movie etc)
lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess
to flow backwards / reverse flow
to fall from power; to collapse / downfall
to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious
HSK 7-9
(coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go / to pull down
to gasp (in surprise, dismay, fright etc)
to adjust to a different time zone
(coll.) a profiteer / (business) wheeler-dealer
to change sides in a war / turncoat
to reflect (producing an inverted image)
to fall back / to go in reverse
to be entirely on one side / one-sided / lopsided / partisan / overwhelmingly on one side
lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect / to stress the incidental over the fundamental / to put the cart before the horse
When the tree topples the monkeys scatter. (idiom); fig. an opportunist abandons an unfavorable cause / Rats leave a sinking ship.
(coll.) but on the contrary; but instead
HSK 7-9
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 pour out one's grievances
(coll.) poor devil / unfortunate man
to lie down / to die
lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance
roly-poly toy
to reverse a vehicle / to drive backwards
to pass out drunk
confused / disorderly / incoherent
a handstand / to turn upside down / to stand on one's head / upside down
lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom) / fig. everybody hits a man who is down
lit. to hang upside down / fig. in dire straits
to invert
lit. the east wind prevails over the west wind (idiom) / fig. one side prevails over the other / progressive ideas prevail over reactionary ones
to be more of a hindrance than a help
to topple over; to fall over / to greatly admire; to prostrate oneself before
to dump; to pour out; to empty out
to lie down / to drop to the ground
not to pose a problem for sb / cannot stump sb
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 take turns / to rotate (responsibility)
to move (things around) / to buy and sell at a profit (derog.)
with one's hands behind one's back
to change shifts / to work in turns
destitute; poverty-stricken
barb / barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook)
to slip and fall; to lose one's footing and fall
to flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc) / reverse flow / to back up (sewage)
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
rotation of crops
adverse audience reaction: boos and jeers, hissing, catcalls or deliberate applause after a mistake
to boo or jeer (as a sign of displeasure at an actor)
(of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat
reverse order / inverted order
to have smoke billowing from a fireplace or stove (due to a blockage in the chimney)
to sustain loss in trade
(idiom) to distort right and wrong; to deliberately mislead
to refute / to demolish (an argument, theory etc)
to play the market / to speculate (on financial markets) / to profiteer
to collapse (of building)
troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse
to fall dead
chamfer; bevel
inverted image / reversed image (e.g. upside down)
mischief / to make trouble
to collapse / to crash down / to fall down in a heap
to trip / to stumble
lit. to move mountains and drain seas / to transform nature
to drive in reverse / fig. to take a backward step / retrogressive / trying to turn the clock back

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