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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
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 have bad luck / to be out of luck
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 turn upside down / to reverse / back to front / confused / deranged / crazy
HSK 7-9
to collapse / to topple over
HSK 7-9
to resell at a profit / to speculate
HSK 7-9
to overwhelm / to overpower / overwhelming
HSK 7-9
(coll.) but on the contrary; but instead
HSK 7-9
to collapse (of building) / to topple over
HSK 7-9
to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious
HSK 7-9
to count down / countdown
HSK 7-9
to overthrow / to knock down / Down with ... !
HSK 7-9
reverse order / inverted order
inverse number / reciprocal (math.)
to reflect (producing an inverted image)
(linguistics) to invert (word order)
roly-poly toy
to invert
to tumble / to fall / fig. to suffer a reverse (in politics or business)
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 fall from power; to collapse / downfall
to change shifts / to work in turns
to knock down / knocked down
to trip / to stumble
to topple over; to fall over / to greatly admire; to prostrate oneself before
to dump; to pour out; to empty out
to fall back / to go in reverse
to baffle / to confound / to stump
to lose money instead of being paid (i.e. sb should pay me, but is actually taking my money)
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 flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc) / reverse flow / to back up (sewage)
(of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat
a handstand / to turn upside down / to stand on one's head / upside down
to pull down / (coll.) to let it go; to drop it
barb / barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook)
to kneel down / to sink to one's knees / to grovel
to fall ill / to be stricken with an illness
to lie down / to die
inverted image / reversed image (e.g. upside down)
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess
rewind (media player)
to lean unsteadily from side to side (idiom) / to sway / (of buildings etc) to lean at a crazy angle
to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side / to support unconditionally
down on one's luck; in straitened circumstances; disappointed; frustrated
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
to take turns / to rotate (responsibility)
to lie down
to take a fall
to flow backwards / reverse flow
to knock over; to knock down; to lay flat; to fell; to bring down
to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)
to be frightened
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 have sexual intercourse
to lie down / to drop to the ground
lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love / fascinated / captivated
lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance
lit. to hang upside down / fig. in dire straits
to overturn trunks and boxes / to make a thorough search (idiom)
to prostrate oneself / to fall on one's knees / to grovel
to engage in speculation and profiteering
to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
to knock down / to mow down
three-shift system (work rostering)
to overturn / to overthrow / to capsize / to collapse
to refute / to demolish (an argument, theory etc)
to shift from one hand to the other / to change hands (of merchandise)
trichiasis (ingrown eyelashes)
lit. to move mountains and drain seas / to transform nature
adverse audience reaction: boos and jeers, hissing, catcalls or deliberate applause after a mistake
to fall dead
to fall headlong / (fig.) to suffer an ignominious failure
to lie down / to drop dead
to transfer grain from a store (e.g. to sun it) / voice breaking (of male opera singer in puberty)
to fall (from power) / in decline / unlucky
to split one's sides laughing
to shift holidays, taking a weekday off
to bend with the wind
to reverse cause and effect / to put the horse before the cart
(of a singer) to lose one's voice / (male opera singer's) voice change (at puberty)
to have bad luck
to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things
locked in (with the door locked from the outside)
to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate
to take turns (responsibility) / to replace
to harp on / over and over / merely ring changes on a few terms
to spoil one's appetite / fig. to get fed up with sth
to play the market / to speculate (on financial markets) / to profiteer
lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius); to save the people from dire straits
(idiom) to exhaust all one has / to leave no stone unturned / to try one's best
to have smoke billowing from a fireplace or stove (due to a blockage in the chimney)

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