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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
to fall down / to slip and fall / to throw sb to the ground
HSK 5
contrary to what one might expect / actually / contrariwise / why don't you
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 faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious
HSK 7-9
(coll.) but on the contrary; but instead
HSK 7-9
to collapse / to topple over
HSK 7-9
to turn upside down / to reverse / back to front / confused / deranged / crazy
HSK 7-9
to collapse (of building) / to topple over
HSK 7-9
to have bad luck / to be out of luck
HSK 7-9
to resell at a profit / to speculate
HSK 7-9
to overwhelm / to overpower / overwhelming
HSK 7-9
to count down / countdown
HSK 7-9
to overthrow / to knock down / Down with ... !
HSK 7-9
rewind (media player)
to lie down / to drop dead
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)
confused / disorderly / incoherent
When the tree topples the monkeys scatter. (idiom); fig. an opportunist abandons an unfavorable cause / Rats leave a sinking ship.
inverse number / reciprocal (math.)
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 faint
to lay down arms
to fall to the ground
to fall back / to go in reverse
to topple over; to fall over / to greatly admire; to prostrate oneself before
to dump; to pour out; to empty out
to tumble / to fall / fig. to suffer a reverse (in politics or business)
a handstand / to turn upside down / to stand on one's head / upside down
to fall dead
overwhelming
to flow backwards / reverse flow
roly-poly toy
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
to trip / to stumble
(coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go / to pull down
to lose money instead of being paid (i.e. sb should pay me, but is actually taking my money)
lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love / fascinated / captivated
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong
inverted image / reversed image (e.g. upside down)
lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom) / fig. everybody hits a man who is down
to place upside down / to play (a video) backwards
to lean unsteadily from side to side (idiom) / to sway / (of buildings etc) to lean at a crazy angle
saltwater intrusion
to move / to shift / to exchange / to buy and sell / peddling
troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse
to overturn trunks and boxes / to make a thorough search (idiom)
instead / on the contrary / contrary (to expectations)
to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)
(coll.) a profiteer / (business) wheeler-dealer
(idiom) to distort right and wrong; to deliberately mislead
(optics) inverted image
to lie down / to drop to the ground
to gasp (in surprise, dismay, fright etc)
dead loan / bad debts / to refuse to pay loan
cold snap during the spring
to be more of a hindrance than a help
to split one's sides laughing
to engage in speculation and profiteering
reverse order / inverted order
to drive in reverse / fig. to take a backward step / retrogressive / trying to turn the clock back
to refute / to demolish (an argument, theory etc)
to boo or jeer (as a sign of displeasure at an actor)
lit. to hang upside down / fig. in dire straits
to collapse / to crash down / to fall down in a heap
to lie down / to die
to fall down
to sustain loss in trade
to kneel down / to sink to one's knees / to grovel
to change sides in a war / turncoat
(cinema) to rewind (a reel) / (photography) to rewind (a roll of film)
to have sexual intercourse
to reverse cause and effect / to put the horse before the cart
to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate
to have rotten luck (stronger version of 倒霉)
to have bad luck
to harp on / over and over / merely ring changes on a few terms
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
down on one's luck; in straitened circumstances; disappointed; frustrated
to push over / to overthrow
to knock over; to knock down; to lay flat; to fell; to bring down
to fall ill / to be stricken with an illness
lit. the east wind prevails over the west wind (idiom) / fig. one side prevails over the other / progressive ideas prevail over reactionary ones
rotation of crops
to bend with the wind
lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance
to reflect (producing an inverted image)
mischief / to make trouble
lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess
(linguistics) to invert (word order)
to overturn / to overthrow / to capsize / to collapse
(linguistics) inverted sentence
(of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat
barb / barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook)
handstand

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