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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
contrary to what one might expect / actually / contrariwise / why don't you
HSK 5
to go bankrupt / to close down
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
to lie down / to die
to overwhelm / to overpower / overwhelming
HSK 7-9
to have bad luck / to be out of luck
HSK 7-9
to lie down / to drop dead
troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse
to collapse (of building) / to topple over
HSK 7-9
to change buses, trains etc
HSK 4
to reverse (a vehicle) / to drive backwards
HSK 4
to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
to move / to shift / to exchange / to buy and sell / peddling
to fall to the ground
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 overthrow / to knock down / Down with ... !
HSK 7-9
to count down / countdown
HSK 7-9
three-shift system (work rostering)
to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side / to support unconditionally
to take a fall
overwhelming
to lie down
down on one's luck; in straitened circumstances; disappointed; frustrated
lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess
to flow backwards / reverse flow
(coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go / to pull down
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 change sides in a war / turncoat
to reflect (producing an inverted image)
to fall back / to go in reverse
to fall from power; to collapse / downfall
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
(coll.) but on the contrary; but instead
HSK 7-9
to topple over; to fall over / to greatly admire; to prostrate oneself before
to dump; to pour out; to empty out
to pour out one's grievances
(coll.) poor devil / unfortunate man
lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance
inverse number / reciprocal (math.)
to harp on / over and over / merely ring changes on a few terms
roly-poly toy
to pass out drunk
a handstand / to turn upside down / to stand on one's head / upside down
not to pose a problem for sb / cannot stump sb
to fall down
to invert
to laugh until it hurts; to laugh heartily
the wrong way round (back to front, inside out etc)
to lean unsteadily from side to side (idiom) / to sway / (of buildings etc) to lean at a crazy angle
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
barb / barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook)
to slip and fall; to lose one's footing and fall
to drive in reverse / fig. to take a backward step / retrogressive / trying to turn the clock back
to flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc) / reverse flow / to back up (sewage)
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
rotation of crops
to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious
HSK 7-9
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 gasp (with amazement or shock etc) / to feel a chill run down one's spine / to have one's hairs stand on end
reverse gear
to play the market / to speculate (on financial markets) / to profiteer
to lose money instead of being paid (i.e. sb should pay me, but is actually taking my money)
rewind (media player)
barb / (football) bicycle kick; overhead kick
lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love / fascinated / captivated
chamfer; bevel
mirror writing / upside down writing
inverted image / reversed image (e.g. upside down)
to fall headlong / (fig.) to suffer an ignominious failure
mischief / to make trouble
to collapse / to crash down / to fall down in a heap
to knock down / knocked down
to have sexual intercourse
to have bad luck
lit. to move mountains and drain seas / to transform nature
to resell at a profit / to speculate
HSK 7-9
to place upside down / to play (a video) backwards
(idiom) to exhaust all one has / to leave no stone unturned / to try one's best
handstand
to push over / to overthrow
lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom) / fig. everybody hits a man who is down
to fall ill / to be stricken with an illness
lit. a willow that bends with the wind / one with no fixed principles (idiom)
locked in (with the door locked from the outside)
to be more of a hindrance than a help
lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation / dire straits
lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation / dire straits
backwards; in reverse; upside down
to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things
to engage in speculation and profiteering

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