倒座儿 (倒座兒)
dào zuò r5
Pinyin
Definition
倒座儿 (倒座兒)
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- the north-facing room opposite the master's in a siheyuan 四合院[sì hé yuàn]
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to fall
- 2 to collapse
- 3 to lie horizontally
- 4 to overthrow
- 5 to fail
- 6 to go bankrupt
- 7 to change (trains or buses)
- 8 to move around
- 9 to resell at a profit
- 1 Libra (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
- 1 Scorpio or Scorpius (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
- 1 Sagittarius (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
- 2 popular variant of 人馬座|人马座[Rén mǎ zuò]
- 1 Cancer (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
Idioms (20)
倒悬之危
- 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
- 2 dire straits
倒悬之急
- 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
- 2 dire straits
倒悬之苦
- 1 lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
- 2 dire straits
倒打一耙
- 1 lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 豬八戒|猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记; fig. to counterattack
- 2 to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)
倒行逆施
- 1 to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong
- 2 to try to turn back history
- 3 a perverse way of doing things