倒

HSK 4#780 by frequencyradical 亻

dào["v","d"]

to pour out; to tip out; to dump; to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet

dǎo["v","d"]

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

Examples

他倒在地上。

He fell to the floor.

这倒是事实。

That’s actually the truth.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.