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

• 解民倒悬(解民倒懸) to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius)
• 倒账(倒賬) to evade debt ; bad debt
• 倒悬(倒懸) to hang upside down
• 倒胃口 to spoil one's appetite; fig. to get fed up with sth
• 倒贴(倒貼) to lose money instead of being paid
• 病倒 to fall ill; to be stricken with an illness
• 穷愁潦倒(窮愁潦倒) destitute and troubled; in dire straits
• 半生潦倒 reckless waste of half my life
• 吓倒(嚇倒) to be frightened
• 打倒 to knock down ; to overthrow; to defeat
• 倒背如流 to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
• 倒挂(倒掛) to hang upside down; topsy-turvy and inequitable
• 倒转(倒轉) to make an about-turn; to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc; to turn things on their head
• 随风倒(隨風倒) to bend with the wind
• 倒像 inverted image; reversed image (e.g. upside down)
• 颠三倒四(顛三倒四) upside down in threes and fours; disorderly
• 投机倒把(投機倒把) to play the market
• 撂倒 to knock down; to mow down
• 病来如山倒，病去如抽丝(病來如山倒，病去如抽絲) sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk; expect to convalesce slowly
• 逆行倒施 perversely go against the mainstream
• 倒替 to take turns (responsibility); to replace
• 难不倒(難不倒) not to pose a problem for somebody; cannot stump sb
• 压倒(壓倒) to tip over ; to overwhelm; overpower
• 栽倒 to take a fall
• 摔倒 to fall down; to slip and fall; to throw somebody to the ground
• 倒赔(倒賠) to sustain loss in trade
• 倒背手 with one's hands behind one's back
• 倒班 to change shifts; to work in turns
• 倒行逆施 to go against the tide; to do things all wrong ; perversely go against the mainstream
• 颠倒帐目(顛倒帳目) to falsify accounting records
• 倒果为因(倒果為因) to reverse cause and effect; to put the horse before the cart
• 晨昏颠倒(晨昏顛倒) night changing into day
• 解甲倒戈 remove armor and put down weapons; to abandon battle
• 倒霉蛋儿(倒霉蛋兒) poor devil
• 倒反 instead; on the contrary; contrary (to expectations)
• 绊倒(絆倒) to trip; to stumble
• 倒粪(倒糞) to turn over manure; to offend others by endlessly repeating unpleasant remarks
• 倒台(倒臺) to fall from power
• 颠来倒去(顛來倒去) to harp on; over and over; merely ring changes on a few terms
• 翻箱倒柜(翻箱倒櫃) to overturn trunks and boxes; to make a thorough search
• 三班倒 three-shift system (work rostering)
• 倒买倒卖(倒買倒賣) to buy and sell at a profit; to speculate
• 一边倒(一邊倒) to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side; to support unconditionally
• 倒血霉 to have rotten luck
• 倒悬之苦(倒懸之苦) the pain of being hanged upside down; extremely critical situation; dire straits
• 昏倒 to faint
• 倒悬之急(倒懸之急) the crisis of being hanged upside down; extremely critical situation; dire straits
• 排山倒海 to topple mountains and overturn the seas; earthshaking
• 头倒立(頭倒立) headstand
• 倾倒(傾倒) to admire

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倒伏

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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
• 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