倒流
dào liú
Pinyin
Definition
倒流
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- to flow backwards
- reverse flow
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to exchange
- 2 exchange
- 3 communication
- 4 interaction
- 5 to have social contact (with sb)
- 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 to have bad luck
- 2 to be out of luck
- 1 to flow
- 2 to disseminate
- 3 to circulate or spread
- 4 to move or drift
- 5 to degenerate
- 6 to banish or send into exile
- 7 stream of water or sth resembling one
- 8 class, rate or grade
- 1 to shed tears
Idioms (20)
人往高处走,水往低处流
- 1 man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom)
- 2 one should constantly strive to make progress
付之东流
- 1 to commit to the waters (idiom); to lose sth irrevocably
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