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)

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• 倒台(倒臺) to fall from power
• 倒置 to invert
• 倒戈卸甲 to lay down arms
• 倒会(倒會) rotating savings and credit association
• 倒退 to fall back; to go in reverse ; to trace back
• 倒地 to fall to the ground
• 颠倒是非(顛倒是非) to invert right and wrong
• 卧倒(臥倒) to lie down; to drop to the ground
• 倒霉蛋 poor devil; unfortunate man
• 神魂颠倒(神魂顛倒) spirit and soul upside down; infatuated and head over heels in love; fascinated; captivated
• 倒立 a handstand; to turn upside down; to stand on one's head; upside down
• 倒悬之危(倒懸之危) the crisis of being hanged upside down; extremely critical situation; dire straits
• 倒槽 to die out (of livestock)
• 海水倒灌 saltwater intrusion
• 轻重倒置(輕重倒置) to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the unimportant and neglect the important); lacking a sense of perspective
• 倒反 instead; on the contrary; contrary (to expectations)
• 颠倒(顛倒) to turn upside-down; to reverse; to invert ; psychologically mixed up; confused ; to overthrow ; to the contrary ; only
• 崩倒 to collapse; to crash down; to fall down in a heap
• 倒苦水 to pour out one's grievances
• 解民倒悬(解民倒懸) to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius)
• 倒带(倒帶) to rewind (media player)
• 顺山倒(順山倒) Timber! (lumberjack's warning call)
• 碰倒 to knock over
• 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
• 颠倒教室(顛倒教室) flipped classroom
• 推倒 to push over; to overthrow
• 难不倒(難不倒) not to pose a problem for somebody; cannot stump sb
• 倒闭(倒閉) to go bankrupt
• 倒打一耙 to strike with a muckrake; to counterattack
• 倒坍 to collapse (of building)
• 倒像 inverted image; reversed image (e.g. upside down)
• 却倒(卻倒) but on the contrary; but unexpectedly
• 穷愁潦倒(窮愁潦倒) destitute and troubled; in dire straits
• 三班倒 three-shift system (work rostering)
• 倒计时(倒計時) to countdown
• 滑倒 to slip; to lose one's footing
• 倒爷(倒爺) a profiteer
• 倒茬 rotation of crops
• 颠之倒之(顛之倒之) to carelessly upend
• 帮倒忙(幫倒忙) to be more of a hindrance than a help
• 绝倒(絕倒) to split one's sides laughing
• 倒装(倒裝) inversion (rhetoric device of inverting the word order for heightened effect); anastrophe
• 倒彩声(倒彩聲) jeering; booing; catcalls
• 头倒立(頭倒立) headstand
• 倒车挡(倒車擋) reverse gear
• 不倒翁 roly-poly toy; tilting doll
• 倒霉 to have bad luck
• 官倒 speculation by officials; profiteering by government employees; bureaucratic turpitude
• 倒悬之急(倒懸之急) the crisis of being hanged upside down; extremely critical situation; dire straits
• 倒刺 barb; barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook)

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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 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
• 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
• 倒载 (倒載) 倒載干戈 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《樂記》 Record of Music — 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