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Character Decomposition
倒=亻+到
Etymology
person
Meanings2 pronunciations
dǎo
to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally
to fail; to go bankrupt
to overthrow
to change (trains or buses)
to move around
to resell at a profit
dào
to invert; to place upside down or frontside back
to pour out
to tip out; to dump
inverted; upside down; reversed
to go backward
contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
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Words with 倒 496 total
to turn upside down · to reverse · back to front · confused · deranged · crazy颠倒diān dǎoto overthrow · to knock down · Down with... !打倒dǎ dǎoto play the market · to speculate (on financial markets) · to profiteer倒把dǎo bǎto collapse (of building)倒败dǎo bàito change shifts · to work in turns倒班dǎo bānto go bankrupt · to close down倒闭dǎo bìto fall dead倒毙dǎo bìadverse audience reaction: boos and jeers, hissing, catcalls or deliberate applause after a mistake倒彩dào cǎito transfer grain from a store (e.g. to sun it) · voice breaking (of male opera singer in puberty)倒仓dǎo cāngto die out (of livestock)倒槽dǎo cáorotation of crops倒茬dǎo cháto change buses, trains etc倒车dǎo chē
Idioms with 倒 130 total Chain
lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect · to stress the incidental over the fundamental · to put the cart before the horse本末倒置běn mò dào zhìtroops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse兵败如山倒bīng bài rú shān dǎoto know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)倒背如流dào bèi rú liú