倒 dǎo

1. dǎo verb to fall; to collapse; to topple
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: As in 摔倒 (Guoyu '倒' dǎo v 1; Kroll 2015 '倒' dǎo 1; NCCED '倒' dǎo 1-1; Unihan '倒')
2. dào verb to turn upside down; to turn over; to tip; to reverse
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '倒' dào v 1; Kroll 2015 '倒' dào 1; NCCED '倒' dào 1-1; Unihan '倒')
3. dǎo verb to fail; to go bankrupt
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 倒闭 'bankrupt' (Guoyu '倒' dǎo v 2; NCCED '倒' dǎo 1-2; Unihan '倒')
4. dǎo verb to change
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (NCCED '倒' dǎo 2-1; Unihan '倒')
5. dǎo verb to move around
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (NCCED '倒' dǎo 2-2; Unihan '倒')
6. dǎo verb to sell
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (NCCED '倒' dǎo 2-3; Unihan '倒')
7. dǎo verb to buy and resell; to speculate
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '倒' dǎo v 4; NCCED '倒' dǎo 2-4; Unihan '倒')
8. dǎo noun profiteer; speculator
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (NCCED '倒' dǎo 2-5)
9. dǎo verb to overthrow
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (NCCED '倒' dǎo 1-3)
10. dǎo verb to be spoiled
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (NCCED '倒' dǎo 1-4)
11. dào adjective upside down
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (NCCED '倒' dào 1-2)
12. dào verb to move backwards
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: For example, 倒车 'reverse a car' (Guoyu '倒' dào v 3; NCCED '倒' dào 1-3)
13. dào verb to pour
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: For example, 倒茶水 'pour tea' (Guoyu '倒' dào v 2; NCCED '倒' dào 1-4; Unihan '倒')
14. dào adverb to the contrary
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 反而 (Guoyu '倒' dào adv 1; Kroll 2015 '倒' dào 2; NCCED '倒' dào 2-1)
15. dào conjunction however; but
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 卻 (Guoyu '倒' dào adv 1; NCCED '倒' dào 2-2)
16. dǎo verb havign a hoarse voice
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (Guoyu '倒' dǎo v 3)
17. dào verb to violate; to go counter to
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 违逆 (Guoyu '倒' dào v 4)

Contained in

• 倒立像 inverted image; reversed image (e.g. upside down)
• 倒仓(倒倉) to transfer grain from a store (e.g. to sun it); voice breaking (of male opera singer in puberty)
• 倾倒(傾倒) to admire
• 倒栽葱(倒栽蔥) to fall headlong; () to suffer an ignominious failure
• 倒数(倒數) inverse number; reciprocal (math.)
• 倒转(倒轉) to make an about-turn; to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc; to turn things on their head
• 倒把 to play the market; to speculate (on financial markets); to profiteer
• 倒位 inversion
• 倒悬之苦(倒懸之苦) the pain of being hanged upside down; extremely critical situation; dire straits
• 开倒车(開倒車) to drive in reverse ; to take a backward step; trying to turn the clock back
• 倒替 to take turns (responsibility); to replace
• 倒槽 to die out (of livestock)
• 倒赔(倒賠) to sustain loss in trade
• 卧倒(臥倒) to lie down; to drop to the ground
• 跌倒 to tumble; to fall
• 倒彩声(倒彩聲) jeering; booing; catcalls
• 树倒猢狲散(樹倒猢猻散) When the tree topples the monkeys scatter.; an opportunist abandons an unfavorable cause
• 倒班 to change shifts; to work in turns
• 倒噍 to ruminate (of cows)
• 解甲倒戈 remove armor and put down weapons; to abandon battle
• 倒带(倒帶) to rewind (media player)
• 翻江倒海 overturning seas and rivers; overwhelming; earth-shattering; in a spectacular mess
• 扑倒(撲倒) to fall down
• 随风倒舵(隨風倒舵) to trim one's sails with the wind; to adopt different attitude depending on the circumstances
• 倒装(倒裝) inversion (rhetoric device of inverting the word order for heightened effect); anastrophe
• 随风倒(隨風倒) to bend with the wind
• 倒骑(倒騎) to ride backwards
• 倒地 to fall to the ground
• 碰倒 to knock over
• 颠倒过来(顛倒過來) to invert
• 倒贴(倒貼) to lose money instead of being paid
• 病倒 to fall ill; to be stricken with an illness
• 倒爷(倒爺) a profiteer
• 倒打一耙 to strike with a muckrake; to counterattack
• 倒街卧巷(倒街臥巷) living on the streets
• 倒吊蜡烛(倒吊蠟燭) Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo)
• 倒毙(倒斃) to fall dead
• 倒刺 barb; barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook)
• 逆行倒施 perversely go against the mainstream
• 倒像 inverted image; reversed image (e.g. upside down)
• 倒悬之危(倒懸之危) the crisis of being hanged upside down; extremely critical situation; dire straits
• 难倒(難倒) to baffle; to confound; to stump
• 压倒性(壓倒性) overwhelming
• 倒钩(倒鉤) barb; bicycle kick, or overhead kick (football)
• 倒血霉 to have rotten luck
• 倾箱倒箧(傾箱倒篋) to exhaust all one has; to leave no stone unturned; to try one's best
• 晕倒(暈倒) to faint; to swoon; to black out; to become unconscious
• 倒霉 to have bad luck
• 撞倒 to knock down; to knock over; to run over (sb)

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• 第二回 Chapter 62 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 26
• 第二回 Chapter 24 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 26
• 第二回 Chapter 74 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 25
• 第二回 Chapter 25 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 20
• 第二回 Chapter 103 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 20
• 第二回 Chapter 54 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 19
• 第二回 Chapter 104 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 19
• 第二回 Chapter 67 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 18
• 第二回 Chapter 109 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 18
• 第二回 Chapter 26 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 17

Collocations

• 倒县 (倒縣) 天下之勢方倒縣 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 3 — count: 24
• 倒景 (倒景) 貫列缺之倒景兮 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《司馬相如列傳》 Biography of Sima Xiangru — count: 9
• 误倒 (誤倒) 疑誤倒 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷六十三 李杜列傳 Volume 63: Biographies of Li, Du — count: 7
• 倒载 (倒載) 倒載干戈 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《樂記》 Record of Music — count: 5
• 倒言 (倒言) 七曰倒言反事 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 內儲說上七術第三十 Chapter 30: A Collection of Sayings I — count: 5
• 倒植 (倒植) 是倒植之勢也 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 3 — count: 5
• 天下倒 (天下倒) 天下倒縣 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 3 — count: 4
• 倒持 (倒持) 倒持泰阿 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷六十七 楊胡朱梅云傳 Volume 67: Yang, Hu, Zhu, Mei and Yun — count: 4
• 倒戟 (倒戟) 倒戟而出之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 4
• 倒错 (倒錯) 首尾倒錯 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷四十五 列傳第十五 劉毅 和嶠 武陔 任愷 崔洪 郭奕 侯史光 何攀 Volume 45 Biographies 15: Liu Yi; Cheng Wei; He Jiao; Wu Gai; Ren Kai; Cui Hong; Guo Yi; Hou Shiguang; He Pan — count: 3