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
- 压倒性(壓倒性) overwhelming
- 颠倒教室(顛倒教室) flipped classroom
- 倒贴(倒貼) to lose money instead of being paid
- 倒立 a handstand; to turn upside down; to stand on one's head; upside down
- 压倒(壓倒) to tip over ; to overwhelm; overpower
- 倒带(倒帶) to rewind (media player)
- 好心倒做了驴肝肺(好心倒做了驢肝肺) to mistake good intentions for a donkey's liver and lungs
- 开倒车(開倒車) to drive in reverse ; to take a backward step; trying to turn the clock back
- 病倒 to fall ill; to be stricken with an illness
- 击倒(擊倒) to knock down ; to defeat
- 崩倒 to collapse; to crash down; to fall down in a heap
- 倒装句(倒裝句) inversion (rhetoric device of inverting the word order for heightened effect); anastrophe
- 手倒立 handstand
- 倒转(倒轉) to make an about-turn; to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc; to turn things on their head
- 倒计时(倒計時) to countdown
- 倒彩 adverse audience reaction: boos and jeers, hissing, catcalls or deliberate applause after a mistake
- 颠倒(顛倒) to turn upside-down; to reverse; to invert ; psychologically mixed up; confused ; to overthrow ; to the contrary ; only
- 倒替 to take turns (responsibility); to replace
- 颠来倒去(顛來倒去) to harp on; over and over; merely ring changes on a few terms
- 倒流 to flow backwards; reverse flow
- 昏倒 to faint
- 倒刺 barb; barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook)
- 倒戈卸甲 to lay down arms
- 倒栽葱(倒栽蔥) to fall headlong; () to suffer an ignominious failure
- 倒装(倒裝) inversion (rhetoric device of inverting the word order for heightened effect); anastrophe
- 倒缴(倒繳) to curl the body
- 官倒 speculation by officials; profiteering by government employees; bureaucratic turpitude
- 扳不倒儿(扳不倒兒) tumbler; roly-poly
- 倒班 to change shifts; to work in turns
- 排山倒海 to topple mountains and overturn the seas; earthshaking
- 绝倒(絕倒) to split one's sides laughing
- 倒买倒卖(倒買倒賣) to buy and sell at a profit; to speculate
- 倒影 inverted image; reversed image (e.g. upside down)
- 倒换(倒換) to take turns; to rotate (responsibility)
- 七颠八倒(七顛八倒) disorderly ; disoriented
- 问倒(問倒) to stump; to baffle
- 倒骑(倒騎) to ride backwards
- 倒悬之苦(倒懸之苦) the pain of being hanged upside down; extremely critical situation; dire straits
- 倒抽一口气(倒抽一口氣) to gasp (in surprise)
- 晨昏颠倒(晨昏顛倒) night changing into day
- 倒休 to shift holidays, taking a weekday off
- 倒时差(倒時差) to adjust to a different time zone
- 反倒 on the contrary
- 倒塌 to collapse
- 倒下 to collapse; to topple over
- 倒茬 rotation of crops
- 倒蛋 to make mischief; to make trouble
- 颠倒帐目(顛倒帳目) to falsify accounting records
- 三班倒 three-shift system (work rostering)
- 倒反 instead; on the contrary; contrary (to expectations)
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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 109 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 18
- 第二回 Chapter 67 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 18
- 卷三十二 本紀第三十二: 文宗一 Volume 32 Annals 32: Wenzong 1 History of Yuan 元史 — 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
- 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
- 天下倒 (天下倒) 天下倒縣 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 3 — 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