倒 dǎo
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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') -
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') -
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') -
dǎo
verb
to change
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (NCCED '倒' dǎo 2-1; Unihan '倒') -
dǎo
verb
to move around
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (NCCED '倒' dǎo 2-2; Unihan '倒') -
dǎo
verb
to sell
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (NCCED '倒' dǎo 2-3; Unihan '倒') -
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') -
dǎo
noun
profiteer; speculator
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (NCCED '倒' dǎo 2-5) -
dǎo
verb
to overthrow
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (NCCED '倒' dǎo 1-3) -
dǎo
verb
to be spoiled
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (NCCED '倒' dǎo 1-4) -
dào
adjective
upside down
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (NCCED '倒' dào 1-2) -
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) -
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') -
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) -
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) -
dǎo
verb
havign a hoarse voice
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '倒' dǎo v 3) -
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
- 倒嚼 to ruminate (of cows)
- 投机倒把(投機倒把) to play the market
- 跌倒 to tumble; to fall
- 倒胃口 to spoil one's appetite; fig. to get fed up with sth
- 不倒翁 roly-poly toy; tilting doll
- 倒放 to turn upside down; to upend
- 反倒 on the contrary
- 随风倒(隨風倒) to bend with the wind
- 倒置 to invert
- 东倒西歪(東倒西歪) to lean unsteadily from side to side; to sway
- 倒苦水 to pour out one's grievances
- 倒悬捱命(倒懸捱命) endure life hanging upside down; in danger
- 倒插门(倒插門) to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)
- 颠倒是非(顛倒是非) to invert right and wrong
- 倒阳(倒陽) to be impotent
- 倒把 to play the market; to speculate (on financial markets); to profiteer
- 翻倒 to overturn; to overthrow; to capsize; to collapse
- 倒车挡(倒車擋) reverse gear
- 倒彩声(倒彩聲) jeering; booing; catcalls
- 倒行逆施 to go against the tide; to do things all wrong ; perversely go against the mainstream
- 兵败如山倒(兵敗如山倒) troops in defeat like a landslide; a beaten army in total collapse
- 倒装(倒裝) inversion (rhetoric device of inverting the word order for heightened effect); anastrophe
- 病倒 to fall ill; to be stricken with an illness
- 打倒 to knock down ; to overthrow; to defeat
- 吓倒(嚇倒) to be frightened
- 倒败(倒敗) to collapse (of building)
- 昏倒 to faint
- 那倒是 Oh that's true! (interjection of sudden realization)
- 海水倒灌 saltwater intrusion
- 倒换(倒換) to take turns; to rotate (responsibility)
- 颠倒教室(顛倒教室) flipped classroom
- 倒装句(倒裝句) inversion (rhetoric device of inverting the word order for heightened effect); anastrophe
- 颠倒黑白(顛倒黑白) to invert black and white; to distort the truth deliberately; to misrepresent the facts; to invert right and wrong
- 扑倒(撲倒) to fall down
- 倒骑(倒騎) to ride backwards
- 喝倒彩 to boo or jeer (as a sign of displeasure at an actor)
- 倒数(倒數) inverse number; reciprocal (math.)
- 倒霉蛋儿(倒霉蛋兒) poor devil
- 滑倒 to slip; to lose one's footing
- 跪倒 to kneel down; to sink to one's knees; to grovel
- 官倒 speculation by officials; profiteering by government employees; bureaucratic turpitude
- 压倒性(壓倒性) overwhelming
- 颠来倒去(顛來倒去) to harp on; over and over; merely ring changes on a few terms
- 七颠八倒(七顛八倒) disorderly ; disoriented
- 一边倒(一邊倒) to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side; to support unconditionally
- 倒嗓 (of a singer) to lose one's voice; (male opera singer's) voice change (at puberty)
- 倒影 inverted image; reversed image (e.g. upside down)
- 倒账(倒賬) to evade debt ; bad debt
- 倒休 to shift holidays, taking a weekday off
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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 103 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 20
- 第二回 Chapter 25 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 20
- 第二回 Chapter 104 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 19
- 第二回 Chapter 54 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
- 倒植 (倒植) 是倒植之勢也 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 3 — 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
- 倒载 (倒載) 倒載干戈 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《樂記》 Record of Music — count: 5
- 天下倒 (天下倒) 天下倒縣 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 3 — 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