倒 (dǎo): meaning and stroke order
倒 (dǎo) means to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally, to fail; to go bankrupt, to overthrow.
倒
- Simplified
- 倒
- Traditional
- 倒 (same form)
- Pinyin
- dǎo · dào
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Stroke order of 倒
倒
- dǎo to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt
- dào to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out
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Meaning of 倒
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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
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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
Radical and structure
- 倒
- Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 10 strokes · 亻 on the left, 到 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 倒
- 反倒 fǎn dào (coll.) but on the contrary; but instead
- 病倒 bìng dǎo to fall ill; to be stricken with an illness
- 倒影 dào yǐng inverted image; reversed image (e.g. upside down)
- 摔倒 shuāi dǎo to fall down; to slip and fall
- 倒下 dǎo xià to collapse; to topple over
- 倒霉 dǎo méi to have bad luck; to be out of luck
倒 in our stories
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亭子里有一位卖茶的老人，他给每个人倒了一杯热茶。
tíngzi lǐ yǒu yí wèi mài chá de lǎorén tā gěi měi gè rén dào le yì bēi rè chá
An old man sold tea in the pavilion, and he poured each of them a cup of hot tea.
From the story No umbrella HSK 3
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原来，她的父亲是一位画家，画这幅画的时候突然去世了，她伤心得病倒了，没多久也离开了人间。
yuánlái tā de fùqīn shì yí wèi huàjiā huà zhè fú huà de shíhou tūrán qùshì le tā shāngxīn de bìng dǎo le méi duōjiǔ yě líkāi le rénjiān
It turned out her father had been a painter who died suddenly while working on this picture; she fell ill with grief and soon left this world too.
From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5
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直到确定天地再也不会合上，这位精疲力尽的巨人才终于倒了下去。
zhídào quèdìng tiān dì zài yě bú huì hé shàng zhè wèi jīngpí-lìjìn de jùrén cái zhōngyú dǎo le xiàqu
Only when he was sure that heaven and earth would never close again did the exhausted giant finally fall.
From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Stories using 倒
- No umbrella HSK 3
- The girl in the painting HSK 5
- Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9
- The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9
- The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).