Printable Writing Practice Worksheet of "倒" in Portrait Orientation (Tian Zi Ge)
Printable Writing Practice Worksheet of "倒" in Landscape Orientation (Tian Zi Ge)
Pinyin
dào、 dǎo
Definition
to fall / to collapse / to topple / to change / to fail / bankrupt, upset / turn over / to tip / to pour / to go home / to the contrary / inverted
to flash back / flashback (in a novel, movie etc)
to lie down / to drop to the ground
lit. to hang upside down / fig. in dire straits
to change sides in a war / turncoat
to play the market / to speculate (on financial markets) / to profiteer
to prostrate oneself / to fall on one's knees / to grovel
lit. to hang upside down / fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods) / to borrow more than one can ever repay
to knock down / to knock over / to run over (sb)
to reflect (producing an inverted image)
to overturn trunks and boxes / to make a thorough search (idiom)
to fall headlong / (fig.) to suffer an ignominious failure
but on the contrary / but expectedly
to have bad luck / to be out of luck
to fall down / to slip and fall / to throw sb to the ground
to fall back / to go in reverse
to kneel down / to sink to one's knees / to grovel
to turn upside down / to reverse / back to front / confused / deranged / crazy
to collapse / to topple over
to tumble / to fall / fig. to suffer a reverse (in politics or business)
to overwhelm / to overpower / overwhelming
to make an about-turn / to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc / to turn things on their head
to collapse (of building) / to topple over
to go bankrupt / to close down
to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious