倒

倒 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人一土弓 (OMGN), four-corner 2220₀, composition ⿰亻到)

• 𰃄, 𰂺, 𨃫, 𪝻

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 107, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 767
• Dae Jaweon: page 229, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 174, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5012

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *taːwʔ, *taːws): semantic 亻 + phonetic 到 (OC *taːws).

倒

1. to fall; to fall over; to fall down
2. to collapse; to fall in
3. to lie down; to recline
4. to fail; to be on the decline
5. to be damaged; to malfunction
6. to go bankrupt; to close down
7. to sell out; to sell up; to give up for money
8. to buy and resell for a profit
9. to stop; to discontinue
10. to move; to move around
11. to change; to switch over
12. (Cantonese) to pour out; to tip; to dump

    倒垃圾 [Cantonese]  ―  dou² laap⁶ saap³ [Jyutping]  ―  to take out the trash

13. (dated Internet slang) to be astonished (hyperbolically to the extent that one fells down); to be left speechless

    我倒，還有這樣的。 [MSC, trad.]
    我倒，还有这样的。 [MSC, simp.]

    Wǒ dǎo, hái yǒu zhèyàng de. [Pinyin]

    Oh hell. I can't believe there's such a thing.

14. (Southwestern Mandarin) Particle indicating the continuation of an action or a state.
15. (Southwestern Mandarin) Particle denoting a command, request or advice.

    你聽倒！／你听倒！ [Southwestern Mandarin]  ―  Nǐ tīng dǎo! [Pinyin]  ―  You listen!

倒

1. to put upside down; to invert; to be inverted
2. to reverse; to move backwards; to turn back
3. upside down; inverted; flipped; reversed
4. to pour out; to dump; to empty

   倒垃圾  ―  dào lājī  ―  to take out the trash

5. to cast; to mould
6. contrary to expectation; conversely; on the contrary; instead

   • 他到自己的地方來，自己的人倒不接待他。 [MSC, trad.]
     他到自己的地方来，自己的人倒不接待他。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: John 1.11

     Tā dào zìjǐ de dìfāng lái, zìjǐ de rén dào bù jiēdài tā. [Pinyin]

     He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

7. particle indicating contrast; but; however
8. particle used after a ‹verb + 得› structure to indicate it is contrary to the actual situation, implying blame; then
9. particle used in a subordinate clause at the beginning of a sentence to indicate concession; quite
10. particle used in an imperative sentence to indicate impatience
11. particle used to soften the tone
12. (Southern Min) left (direction)

(antonym(s) of “left”): (Hokkien, Teochew) 正 (chiàⁿ, “right”)

• “倒”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “倒 (～水)”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 174.
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “倒 (打～)”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 174.
• 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “倒”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, pages 130, 132.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. overthrow

• Go-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kun: たおれる (taoreru, 倒れる, Jōyō)、たおす (taosu, 倒す, Jōyō)、さかさま (sakasama, 倒)

倒 (eumhun 넘어질 도 (neomeojil do))

1. hanja form^? of 도 (“fall over”)
2. hanja form^? of 도 (“lie down”)
3. hanja form^? of 도 (“take turns”)

倒: Hán Nôm readings: đảo

1. overturn
2. dip
3. transfer